1 Corinthians 9:19

American Standard Version (1901)

For though I was free from all [men], I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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  • Matt 18:15 : 15 And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
  • Matt 20:26-28 : 26 Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; 27 and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: 28 even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • 1 Cor 9:1 : 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
  • 1 Cor 9:20-22 : 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
  • Rom 15:2 : 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying.
  • John 13:14-15 : 14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.
  • Rom 1:14 : 14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
  • 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise winneth souls.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them.
  • 1 Cor 7:16 : 16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

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  • 1 Cor 9:20-23
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    20And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

    21to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.

    22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

    23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-18
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    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

    16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

    17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

    2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

    8I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;

    9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself] .

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

  • Gal 4:12
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    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

  • Gal 5:1
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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

  • 2 Cor 12:15-17
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    15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

    16But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

    17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

  • 1 Cor 15:9-10
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

  • Phil 3:7-8
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    7Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

    8Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.

    22For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.

    23Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

  • Rom 15:18-19
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    18For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

  • Phil 1:17-18
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    17but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

    18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

  • Rom 6:18
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    18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

  • Eph 3:1
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    1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

  • Phil 1:12-13
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    12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

    13so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

  • Phlm 1:8-9
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    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

    9yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

  • Acts 20:19
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    19serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.