1 Corinthians 9:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 like manner, 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{TR reads "let him be" instead of "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?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 83%

    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.

    23 Now I do this for the Gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • 80%

    15 But 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.

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

    17 For 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 10 For 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
    2 verses
    74%

    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?

    2 If 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
    3 verses
    73%

    7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Gospel free of charge?

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

    9 When 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 71%

    15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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

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

  • 71%

    9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

    10 But 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.

  • 11 I 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
    2 verses
    71%

    7 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

    8 Yes most assuredly, 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

  • 71%

    21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

    22 For 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.

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

  • Rom 15:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18 For 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,

    19 in 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 Gospel of Christ;

  • 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

  • Phil 1:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Gospel.

    18 What 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.

  • 12 But 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.

  • 12 If 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 Gospel of Christ.

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

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

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

  • Phil 1:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Gospel;

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

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

  • 16 no 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
    2 verses
    69%

    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

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

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

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

  • 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.