1 Corinthians 9:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

To the weak (wanting in discernment) I have become weak (wanting in discernment) that I might win the weak and overscrupulous. I have [in short] become all things to all men, that I might by all means (at all costs and in any and every way) save some [by winning them to faith in Jesus Christ].

American Standard Version (1901)

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

Common English Bible

I act weak to the weak, so I can recruit the weak. I have become all things to all people, so I could save some by all possible means.

Catholic Public Domain Version

To the weak, I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. To all, I became all, so that I might save all.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

1 Corinthians 9:22 Cross References

Romans 11:14

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Romans 14:1

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not to doubtful disputations.

Romans 14:2

One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.

Romans 15:1

Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15:2

Let each one of us please his neighbour for that which is good, unto edifying.

1 Corinthians 10:33

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 7:16

For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore, if meat maketh my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I make not my brother to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9:19

For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

2 Corinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to stumble, and I burn not?

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of meekness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.