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1 Corinthians 10:33

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33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

KJV

33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

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33as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

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33just as I try to please everybody in all I do. I don't think of what benefits me, but what benefits others, so that they may be saved.

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Extra References

Galatians 1:10

10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.


1 Corinthians 10:24

24Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.


1 Corinthians 9:19-23

19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law,[+] that I might gain those who are under the law; 21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. 22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.


Romans 15:2-3

2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. 3For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”


2 Corinthians 12:19

19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.


Romans 11:14

14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.


2 Corinthians 11:28-29

28Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies. 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?