1 Corinthians 9:19
Good News Translation
I am a free man, nobody's slave; but I make myself everybody's slave in order to win as many people as possible.

New Revised Standard Version
For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them.

Contemporary English Version
I am not anyone's slave. But I have become a slave to everyone, so I can win as many people as possible.

New American Bible
Although I am free in regard to all, I have made myself a slave to all so as to win over as many as possible.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

I be.

1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

I made.

1 Corinthians 10:33 As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

Matthew 20:26-28 It shall not be so among you: but whosoever is the greater among you, let him be your minister. . . .

John 13:14,15 If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet. . . .

Romans 1:14 To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor.

Romans 15:2 Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to edification.

2 Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and ourselves your servants through Jesus.

Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

that.

1 Corinthians 9:20-22 And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: . . .

1 Corinthians 7:16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

Proverbs 11:30 If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Matthew 18:15 But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

Romans 11:14 If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.

James 5:19,20 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert him: . . .

1 Peter 3:1 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

Context
Paul the Servant to All
18What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. 20And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:…
Cross References
Proverbs 11:30
If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Matthew 18:15
But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 10:29
Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

2 Corinthians 4:5
For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and ourselves your servants through Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:15
For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Galatians 5:13
For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

1 Peter 3:1
In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

1 Corinthians 9:18
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