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;

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13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only (A)do not use liberty as an (B)opportunity for the flesh, but (C)through love serve one another.

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Dealing with a Sinning Brother

15 “Moreover (A)if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, (B)you have gained your brother.

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Bring Back the Erring One

19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone (A)turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way (B)will save [a]a soul from death and (C)cover a multitude of sins.

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  1. James 5:20 NU his soul

16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

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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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26 Yet (A)it shall not be so among you; but (B)whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 (C)And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— 28 (D)just as the (E)Son of Man did not come to be served, (F)but to serve, and (G)to give His life a ransom (H)for many.”

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10 Therefore (A)I endure all things for the sake of the [a]elect, (B)that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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  1. 2 Timothy 2:10 chosen ones

20 and (A)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 (B)to (C)those who are without law, as without law (D)(not being without [b]law toward God, but under [c]law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; 22 (E)to the weak I became [d]as weak, that I might win the weak. (F)I have become all things to all men, (G)that I might by all means save some.

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  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

(A)For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and (B)ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake.

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(A)Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to [a]edification.

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  1. Romans 15:2 building up

Submission to Husbands

Wives, likewise, be (A)submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, (B)they, without a word, may (C)be won by the conduct of their wives,

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A Pattern of Self-Denial

Am (A)I not an apostle? Am I not free? (B)Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? (C)Are you not my work in the Lord?

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14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise.

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14 (A)If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, (B)you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For (C)I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

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30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
And (A)he who [a]wins souls is wise.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:30 Lit. takes, in the sense of brings, cf. 1 Sam. 16:11

Christian Liberty

(A)Stand[a] fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a (B)yoke of bondage.

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  1. Galatians 5:1 NU For freedom Christ has made us free; stand fast therefore, and

16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will (A)save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

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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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