1 Corinthians 10:33

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.
  • 2 Cor 11:28-29 : 28 Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.
  • Rom 15:2-3 : 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up. 3 For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written,“The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”
  • 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law(though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law. 21 To those free from the law I became like one free from the law(though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law. 22 To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some. 23 I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

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    17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

    19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

    20To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law(though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.

    21To those free from the law I became like one free from the law(though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

    22To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

    23I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

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    31So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

    32Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

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    10So I endure all things for the sake of those chosen by God, that they too may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus and its eternal glory.

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    21Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 11:14
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    14if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

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    13For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

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    17But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

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