Key Verse Spotlight
1 Corinthians 9:23 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with {you}.”
1 Corinthians 9:23
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all {men}, that I might by all means save some.
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with {you}.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they {do it} to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
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