¹⁵But I have ^aused none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case, for it would be better for me to die than have anyone make ^bmy boast an empty one.

¹⁶For if I proclaim the gospel, I have nothing to boast, for ^aI am under compulsion. For woe is me if I do not proclaim ^bthe gospel.

¹⁷For if I do this voluntarily, I have a ^areward; but if against my will, I have a ^bstewardship entrusted to me.

¹⁸What then is my ^areward? That, when I proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel ^bwithout charge, so as ^cnot to make full use of my authority in the gospel.

¹⁹For though I am ^afree from all, I have made myself ^ba slave to all, so that I may ^cwin more.

²⁰^aAnd to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews. To those who are under ¹the Law, as under ²the Law though ^bnot being myself under ³the Law, so that I might win those who are under ⁴the Law.

²¹To those who are ^awithout law, ^bas without law, though not being without the law of God but ^cunder the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.

²²To the ^aweak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become ^ball things to all men, ^cso that I may by all means save some.

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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

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Cross references

a Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:12, 18
b 2 Cor 11:10
a Acts 9:15; Rom 1:14
b 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 14, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12
a John 4:36; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:18
b 1 Cor 4:1; Gal 2:7; Eph 3:2; Phil 1:16; Col 1:25
a John 4:36; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:17
b Acts 18:3; 2 Cor 11:7; 12:13
c 1 Cor 7:31; 9:12
a 1 Cor 9:1
b 2 Cor 4:5; Gal 5:13
c Matt 18:15; 1 Pet 3:1
a Acts 16:3; 21:23–26; Rom 11:14
b Gal 2:19
a Rom 2:12, 14
b Gal 2:3; 3:2
c 1 Cor 7:22; Gal 6:2
a Rom 14:1; 15:1; 2 Cor 11:29
b 1 Cor 10:33
c Rom 11:14