The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but a cunning person takes lives.
1 Corinthians 9:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Although I am free from all and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For although I am free in every way from anyone's control, I have made myself a bond servant to everyone, so that I might gain the more [for Christ]. American Standard Version (1901) For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. Common English Bible Although I’m free from all people, I make myself a slave to all people, to recruit more of them. Catholic Public Domain Version For when I was a free man to all, I made myself the servant of all, so that I might gain all the more. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. |
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but a cunning person takes lives.
‘If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.
I am bound both to Greeks and barbarians, , both to the wise and the foolish.
if I might somehow make my own people , jealous and save some of them.
Each one of us is to please his neighbour for his good, to build him up.
I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?
just as I also try to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
Wife, for all you know, you might save your husband. Husband, for all you know, you might save your wife.
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
Look, I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, since I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children ought not to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Indeed, everything is for your benefit so that, as grace extends through more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God.
For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.
For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.
This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by the way their wives live