1 Corinthians 9:22

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • 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 9:19 : 19 For though I was free from all [men], I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
  • 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?
  • 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?
  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 9:15-21
    7 verses
    84%

    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.

    19For though I was free from all [men], I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
    83%

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

  • 1 Cor 10:33
    79%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 12:9-11
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    72%

    9And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

    10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

    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.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.

  • Gal 2:19
    71%

    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

  • 2 Tim 2:10
    71%

    10Therefore 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 15:9-11
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    71%

    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.

    11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • Gal 4:12
    71%

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

  • Phil 4:13
    70%

    13I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

  • Phil 3:7-8
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    70%

    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 10:23
    70%

    23All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

  • Rom 11:14
    69%

    14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    69%

    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 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;

  • Rom 1:15-16
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    69%

    15So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

    16For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

  • Phil 3:11
    69%

    11if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

  • 2 Cor 11:21-22
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    69%

    21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

    22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

  • Gal 1:10
    69%

    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 9:2
    69%

    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 11:9
    69%

    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 2:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

    3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

  • 2 Cor 12:15-16
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    68%

    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.

  • Phil 1:21
    68%

    21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

  • 2 Cor 10:9
    68%

    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

  • 1 Cor 8:9
    68%

    9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
    68%

    9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

  • Phil 1:12
    68%

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

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

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