1 Corinthians 9:19

World English Bible (2000)

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 18:15 : 15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
  • Matt 20:26-28 : 26 It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. 27 Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
  • 1 Cor 9:1 : 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?
  • 1 Cor 9:20-22 : 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 21 to 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. 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
  • Rom 15:2 : 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
  • John 13:14-15 : 14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
  • Rom 1:14 : 14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
  • 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
  • 1 Cor 7:16 : 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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  • 1 Cor 9:20-23
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    20To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain 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.

    22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

    23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-18
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    15But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

    16For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

    17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

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

  • 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? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

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

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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    7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

    8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

    9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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

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

  • Gal 4:12
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    12I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • 2 Cor 12:15-17
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    15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

    16But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

    17Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

  • 1 Cor 15:9-10
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

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

    8Yes most certainly, 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 count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

    22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

    23You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

  • Rom 15:18-19
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    18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

  • Phil 1:17-18
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    17but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

    18What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

  • 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 in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

  • Rom 6:18
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    18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

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

  • Phil 1:12-13
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    12Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

    13so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

  • Phlm 1:8-9
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    8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

    9yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

  • Acts 20:19
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    19serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.