1 Corinthians 9:23

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Mark 8:35 : 35 For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.
  • 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.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
  • 1 John 1:3 : 3 that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:
  • Heb 3:1 : 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If 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 Cor 9:25-27 : 25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air: 27 but 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 2:4 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.
  • Gal 2:5 : 5 to whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
  • 2 Tim 2:6 : 6 The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

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  • 1 Cor 9:15-22
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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.

    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.

    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.

  • 2 Tim 2:10
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    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 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.

  • Phil 1:12
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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;

  • Phil 1:17-19
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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.

    19For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

  • Phil 1:7
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    7even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

  • Col 1:24-25
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    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

    25whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    73%

    17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    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,

  • Phil 1:30
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    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • Phil 3:10-12
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    73%

    10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;

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

    12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 9:24
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    24Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

  • 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.

  • Phil 3:7-8
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    72%

    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,

  • Phil 1:27
    72%

    27Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • Eph 3:6
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    6[ to wit], that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

  • 1 Cor 10:30
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    30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

  • Phil 4:13
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    13I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

  • Phil 2:16-18
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    16holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

    17Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

    18and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.

  • Rom 1:12
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    12that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

  • 2 Cor 12:10
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:10
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    10or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.

  • Phil 1:21
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    21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

  • 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.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    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.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:9
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    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] .

  • Phil 1:5
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    5for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;

  • Eph 6:19
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    19And on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,