1 Corinthians 9:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might gain all the more.

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King 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.

1 Corinthians 9:19 Cross References

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the wise capture souls.

Matthew 18:15

“If your brother or sister sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If you are listened to, you have regained that one.

Romans 1:14

I am obligated both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish,

Romans 11:14

in order to make my own people jealous and thus save some of them.

Romans 15:2

Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.

1 Corinthians 10:29

I mean the other’s conscience, not your own. For why should my freedom be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience?

1 Corinthians 10:33

just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage but that of many, so that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 7:16

Wife, for all you know, you might save your husband. Husband, for all you know, you might save your wife.

1 Corinthians 9:1

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

2 Corinthians 12:14

Here I am, ready to come to you this third time, and I will not be a burden because I do not want what is yours but you, for children ought not to save up for their parents but parents for their children.

2 Corinthians 4:15

Indeed, everything is for your sake, so that grace, when it has extended to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another.

1 Timothy 4:16

Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

2 Timothy 2:10

Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

1 Peter 3:1

Wives, in the same way, be subject to your husbands, so that, even if some of them do not obey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives’ conduct,