^9:19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.⁸^9:20To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law)⁹ to gain those under the law. ^9:21To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law. ^9:22To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

^9:23I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

^9:24Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win. ^9:25Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

^9:26So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air. ^9:27Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

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1 Corinthians 9:22: To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

Footnotes

8 Or “more converts.” The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. It has been supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning.
9 The Byzantine text, as well as a few other witnesses (D2 [L] Ψ 1881 𝔐) lack this parenthetical material, while geographically widespread, early, and diverse witnesses have the words (so א A B C D* F G P 33 104 365 1175 1505 1739 latt). The phrase may have dropped out accidentally through homoioteleuton (note that both the preceding phrase and the parenthesis end in ὑπὸ νόμον [hupo nomon, “under the law“]), or intentionally by overscrupulous scribes who felt that the statement “I myself am not under the law” could have led to license.