I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
- KJV And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
- BSB I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
- NKJV Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.
- NASB I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.
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Quick answer
Paul does all this for the sake of the gospel, so that he may share in its blessings. He labors to spread the good news and to partake of its promised salvation.
Overview
Paul sums up his motive: everything—his self-denial, his flexibility, his servanthood—is "for the gospel's sake," that he might be a fellow partaker of its saving benefits. This reveals that even the apostle works out his own salvation with eager dependence on God's grace. His ministry and his hope are bound together in the gospel, and he longs to share fully in the eternal blessings it brings.
Cross-references & the web
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- 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.
- Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
- 1 Cor 9:25–27Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
- 1 Jn 1:3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
- Gal 2:5to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
- Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
- 2 Cor 2:4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
- 1 Cor 9:12If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
- 2 Tim 2:6The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
- 1 Pet 5:1Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
- Heb 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
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