1 Corinthians 9:22
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.
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- 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.
- Rom 15:1 : 1 Now 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 jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
- 1 Cor 9:19 : 19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
- 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?
- 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?
- 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
- Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
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- 1 Cor 9:15-217 verses84%
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.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
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.
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23 Now I do this for the Gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
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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 12:9-113 verses72%
9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
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.
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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.
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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.
- 2 Cor 11:29-302 verses71%
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
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19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
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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 15:9-113 verses71%
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 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
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12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
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13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
- Phil 3:7-82 verses70%
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
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23 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.
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14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
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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.
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5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
- Rom 15:18-192 verses69%
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;
- Rom 1:15-162 verses69%
15 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
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11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
- 2 Cor 11:21-222 verses69%
21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 1 Cor 2:2-32 verses69%
2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
- 2 Cor 12:15-162 verses68%
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.
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21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
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9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
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9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
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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;
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17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
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17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Gospel.