1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
KJV
καθὼς κἀγὼ πάντα πᾶσιν ἀρέσκω, μὴ ζητῶν τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ σύμφορον ἀλλὰ τὸ τῶν πολλῶν, ἵνα σωθῶσιν.
Greek NT
sicut et ego per omnia omnibus placeo, non quærens quod mihi utile est, sed quod multis : ut salvi fiant.
Vulgate
even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
ASV
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.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- σύμφορον — SBLGNT
- σύμφορον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- συμφέρον — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Is prudence in the will or in the reason? If in the reason, is it only in the practical, or also in the speculative reason? Does it take cognizance of singulars? Is it virtue? Is it a special virtue? Does it appoint the end to the moral virtues? Does it fix the mean in the moral virtues? Is its proper act command? Does solicitude or watchfulness belong to prudence? Does prudenc…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 8:11 — And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
- 1Cor 9:18 — What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
- 1Cor 9:19 — For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
- 1Cor 9:19 — For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
- 1Cor 9:22 — To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
- 1Cor 10:24 — Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
- 1Cor 10:24 — Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
- 1Cor 10:32 — Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
- 1Cor 11:1 — Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
- 1Cor 13:5 — Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
- 2Cor 3:1 — Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
- 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
- 2Cor 12:14 — Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the chil
- Gal 1:10 — For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
- Gal 1:10 — For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
- Heb 10:24 — And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
- Phil 2:5 — Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
- Phil 2:21 — For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
- Rom 12:5 — So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
- Rom 14:19 — Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
- Rom 15:2 — Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
- Rom 15:2 — Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.