1 Corinthians 9:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Mark 8:35 : 35 ‹For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.›
  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 ¶ The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and 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, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
  • Heb 3:1 : 1 ¶ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:25-27 : 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
  • 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 grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
  • Gal 2:5 : 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
  • 2 Tim 2:6 : 6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

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  • 1 Cor 9:15-22
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    15¶ But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

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

    17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me.

    18What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

    19¶ For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

    20And 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;

    21To 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.

    22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.

  • 2 Tim 2:10
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    10Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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

  • Phil 1:12
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    12¶ But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

  • Phil 1:17-19
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    17But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

    18What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

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

  • Phil 1:7
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    7¶ Even as it is meet for me to think this 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 of my grace.

  • Col 1:24-25
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    24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

    25Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17¶ I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, 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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    10That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

    11If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

    12Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of 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 keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

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    24¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

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

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    12If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

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

    8Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ,

  • Phil 1:27
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    27¶ Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Therefore whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • Eph 3:6
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    6That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

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    30For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

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    13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

  • Phil 2:16-18
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    16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

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

    18For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

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    12That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

  • 2 Cor 12:10
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    10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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    10Or saith he [it] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

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

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    10¶ For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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    14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

  • Eph 3:1
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    1¶ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

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    9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].

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    5For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

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    19¶ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,