1 Corinthians 9:19

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 18:15 : 15 Restoring Christian Relationships“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 Wives and Husbands In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,
  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 So 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.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 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.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.
  • Matt 20:26-28 : 26 It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave– 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • 1 Cor 9:1 : 1 The Rights of an Apostle Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
  • 1 Cor 9:20-22 : 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.
  • Rom 15:2 : 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.
  • John 13:14-15 : 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example– you should do just as I have done for you.
  • Rom 1:14 : 14 I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
  • 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Be conscientious about how you live and what you teach. Persevere in this, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 20 he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.
  • 1 Cor 7:16 : 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

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  • 1 Cor 9:20-23
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-18
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    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

    16For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

    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.

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    33just 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.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10Am 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!

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1The Rights of an Apostle Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

    2If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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    7Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?

    8I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!

    9When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

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    27Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.

  • Gal 4:12
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    12I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

  • 2 Cor 12:15-17
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    15Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

    16But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

    17I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?

  • 1 Cor 15:9-10
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy 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 to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

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    11The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

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    7But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

    8More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

    22For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

    23You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.

  • Rom 15:18-19
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    18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

  • Phil 1:17-18
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    17The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

    18What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

  • Rom 6:18
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    18and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

  • Eph 3:1
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    1Paul’s Relationship to the Divine Mystery For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles

  • Phil 1:12-13
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    12Ministry as a Prisoner I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:

    13The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ,

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking and in the Lord.

  • Phlm 1:8-9
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    8Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

    9I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love– I, Paul, an old man and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus–

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.

  • Acts 20:19
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    19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

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    22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.