1 Corinthians 9:23

And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

In Context

22I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

24have ye not known that those running in a race — all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12if others do partake of the authority over you — not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:4for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

2 Timothy 2:6the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

Hebrews 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

1 Peter 5:1Elders who [are] among you, I exhort, who [am] a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:20-24

The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain… Read the whole commentary →

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