1 Corinthians 9:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

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  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 Just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 if by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh and save some of them.
  • 1 Cor 9:19 : 19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more.
  • 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
  • 1 Cor 7:16 : 16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, if a man is caught in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

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  • 1 Cor 9:15-21
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    84%

    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

    16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!

    17For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

    19For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more.

    20And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law;

    21To those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

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

  • 2 Cor 12:9-11
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    9And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

    10Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

    11I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

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

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

    30If I must boast, I will boast in the things concerning my weakness.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy 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 toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

  • Gal 4:12
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    12Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you: you have not injured me at all.

  • Phil 4:13
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    13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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

    8Indeed, I count all things as loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ,

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.

  • Rom 11:14
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    14if by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh and save some of them.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

  • Rom 15:18-19
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    18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in making the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

    19Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so from Jerusalem and all around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

  • Rom 1:15-16
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    15So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are at Rome also.

    16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

  • Phil 3:11
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    11If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

  • 2 Cor 11:21-22
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    21I speak concerning reproach, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—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
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    10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 11:9
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    9And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one: for what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. And in all things I have kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

  • 1 Cor 2:2-3
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    2For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

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

  • 2 Cor 12:15-16
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    15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

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

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

  • 2 Cor 10:9
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    9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

  • 1 Cor 8:9
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    9But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9For to this end I also wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in all things.

  • Phil 1:12
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    12But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel;

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

  • Phil 1:17
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    17But the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.