◄ 1 Corinthians 10:33 ►
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Good News Translation
Just do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking of my own good, but of the good of all, so that they might be saved.

New Revised Standard Version
just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, so that they may be saved.

Contemporary English Version
I always try to please others instead of myself, in the hope that many of them will be saved.

New American Bible
just as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own benefit but that of the many, that they may be saved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 10:24 Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.

See on ch.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. . . .

Romans 15:2,3 Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to edification. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:28,29 Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:19 Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.

Context
All to God's Glory
…32Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God: 33As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.
Cross References
Romans 11:14
If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ; and every one members one of another:

Romans 15:2
Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to edification.

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.

1 Corinthians 13:5
Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Galatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Philippians 2:21
For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ's.

1 Thessalonians 2:16
Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

1 Corinthians 10:32
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