if somehow I might provoke to jealousy my own flesh and blood and save some of them.
1 Corinthians 10:33 - Tree of Life Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Just as I myself strive to please [to accommodate myself to the opinions, desires, and interests of others, adapting myself to] all men in everything I do, not aiming at or considering my own profit and advantage, but that of the many in order that they may be saved. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible This is the same thing that I do. I please everyone in everything I do. I don’t look out for my own advantage, but I look out for many people so that they can be saved. Catholic Public Domain Version just as I also, in all things, please everyone, not seeking what is best for myself, but what is best for many others, so that they may be saved. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself, but to many, that may be saved. |
if somehow I might provoke to jealousy my own flesh and blood and save some of them.
so we, who are many, are one body in Messiah and everyone parts of one another.
it does not behave inappropriately, it does not seek its own way, it is not provoked, it keeps no account of wrong,
Look, I am ready to come to you this third time, and I will not burden you—for I seek not your possessions, but you! For the children are not obliged to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
All along you’ve been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. It is before God that we’ve been speaking in Messiah—and all for building you up, loved ones.
Am I now trying to win people’s approval, or God’s? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Messiah.
hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they might be saved. As a result, they constantly fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last.