33 just (A)as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

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24 Let no one seek his own, but each one (A)the other’s well-being.

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10 For (A)do I now (B)persuade men, or God? Or (C)do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

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Serving All Men

19 For though I am (A)free from all men, (B)I have made myself a servant to all, (C)that I might win the more; 20 and (D)to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the [a]law, that I might win those who are under the law; 21 (E)to (F)those who are without law, as without law (G)(not being without [b]law toward God, but under [c]law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; 22 (H)to the weak I became [d]as weak, that I might win the weak. (I)I have become all things to all men, (J)that I might by all means save some. 23 Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:20 NU adds though not being myself under the law
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:21 NU God’s law
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:21 NU Christ’s law
  4. 1 Corinthians 9:22 NU omits as

19 (A)Again, [a]do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? (B)We speak before God in Christ. (C)But we do all things, beloved, for your edification.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 12:19 NU You have been thinking for a long time that we

(A)Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to [a]edification. (B)For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, (C)“The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.”

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  1. Romans 15:2 building up

28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: (A)my deep concern for all the churches. 29 (B)Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

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14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and (A)save some of them.

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