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

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Each of us should please our neighbors for their good,(A) to build them up.(B)

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24 Do not seek your own advantage but that of the other.(A)

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24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.(A)

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19 Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.(A)

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19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace(A) and to mutual edification.(B)

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Let each of you look not to your own interests but to the interests of others.(A) Let the same mind be in you that was[a] in Christ Jesus,(B)

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  1. 2.5 Or that you have

not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.(A)

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:(B)

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or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;(A)

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It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(A) it is not easily angered,(B) it keeps no record of wrongs.(C)

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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.(A) 11 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.(B)

33 even as I try to please everyone in every way.(A) For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many,(B) so that they may be saved.(C) 11 Follow my example,(D) as I follow the example of Christ.(E)

19 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.(A) 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to gain Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might gain those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not outside God’s law but am within Christ’s law) so that I might gain those outside the law.(B) 22 To the weak I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

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Paul’s Use of His Freedom

19 Though I am free(A) and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone,(B) to win as many as possible.(C) 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews.(D) To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law),(E) so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law(F) (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law),(G) so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak.(H) I have become all things to all people(I) so that by all possible means I might save some.(J)

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Urge slaves to be submissive to their masters in everything, to be pleasing, not talking back,(A) 10 not stealing, but showing complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the teaching of God our Savior.

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Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything,(A) to try to please them, not to talk back to them, 10 and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior(B) attractive.(C)

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