1 Corinthians 9:23
I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
BSB
ASV
And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
KJV
And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.43.49-50 (253)
Only someone as mature in faith as the apostle Paul could say this. A sinner could never talk in this way.
For the gospel’s sake - That it may be advanced, and may be successful. That I might be partaker thereof with you - You hope to be saved. You regard yourselves as Christians; and I wish to give evidence also that “I” am a Christian, and that I shall be admitted to heaven to partake of the happiness of the redeemed. This he did, by so denying himself as to give evidence that he was truly actuated by Christian principles.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 John 1:3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
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God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
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Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
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This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;
Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
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Hebrews 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
