1 Corinthians 9:19

Though free from all, Paul made himself a servant to everyone, in order to win as many as possible. He embraced voluntary servitude for the sake of the lost.

Cross-references · 18

• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• Matt 18:15“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
• 1 Cor 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
• Jas 5:19–20Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
• 1 Tim 4:16Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
• Matt 20:26–28It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.
• 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• 1 Cor 9:20–22To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
• Rom 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
• 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
• Prov 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
• Rom 1:14I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
• 1 Pet 3:1In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
• 1 Cor 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
• John 13:14–15If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
• Gal 5:1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• 1 Cor 7:16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
• Rom 11:14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

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