1 Corinthians 9

Treated in 22 passages across the library.

American Standard Version

  1. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    The necessity of mortification: the duty of the best believers cites 1 Cor. ix. 27

    …ion proposed to confirmation — Mortification the duty of the best believers, Col. iii. 5; 1 Cor. ix. 27 — Indwelling sin always abides; no perfection in this life, Phil. iii. 12; 1 Cor. xiii. 1…

  2. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    A Brief Account of the Author’s Call to the Work of the Ministry cites 1 Cor. 9.2

    … others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord’ (1 Cor. 9.2). These things, therefore, were as another argument unto me that God had called me to, an…

  3. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Tenderness required in ministers toward young beginners cites 1 Cor. ix. 2

    …; that they might be examples of what they taught. St. Paul became all things to all men, 1 Cor. ix. 2, stooping - unto them for their good: Christ came down from Heaven, and emptied himself o…

  4. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Signs of one truly bruised. Means and measure of bruising, and comfort to such cites 1 Cor. ix. 9

    …nor seethe the kid in the mother’s milk, Exod. xxiii. 19, nor muzzle the mouth of the ox, 1 Cor. ix. 9. Hath God care of beasts, and not of his more noble creature? and therefore we ought to j…

  5. Men and Women Who Gave Everything · Ochorus Originals

    Catherine Booth — The Preacher Who Took the Gospel to the Streets cites 1 Corinthians 9:16

    … cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” (1 Corinthians 9:16, NIV). She felt the woe. She preached. And the world is different for it. A Prayer Lord o…

  6. Men and Women Who Gave Everything · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Missional Life cites 1 Corinthians 9:16

    …should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.” 1 Corinthians 9:16 — “For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to m…

  7. A Plain Account of Christian Perfection · John Wesley

    Section 25 cites 1 Cor. 9:21

    …ith him. “Q. 3. How, then, are we ‘not without law to God, but under the law to Christ?’ (1 Cor. 9:21.) “A. We are without that law; but it does not follow that we are without any law: For Go…

  8. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

    Gregory the Great — The Servant of Servants cites 1 Corinthians 9:22

    … I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some” (1 Corinthians 9:22, NIV). This was not inconsistency or sycophancy — it was pastoral intelligence, the skill…

  9. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Pastoral Calling cites 1 Corinthians 9:22

    …ak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.” 1 Corinthians 9:22 — “To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so …

  10. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Exhortations to those who are called cites 1 Cor. ix. 22

    …of an affable temper. “I am made all things to men, that I might by all means save some” (1 Cor. ix. 22). In lesser matters the apostle yielded to others, that by his obliging manner he might w…

  11. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    December cites 1 Corinthians 9:22

    …ruth. December 7 “I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.” (1 Corinthians 9:22) Paul's great object was not merely to instruct and to improve, but to save. Anything sho…

  12. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Christ will not quench small and weak beginnings cites 1 Cor. ix. 22

    …s of them that are weak, Rom. xv. 1. I become all things to all men, that I may win some, 1 Cor. ix. 22. O that this gaining and winning disposition were more in many ! Many, so far as in us li…

  13. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites 1 Cor. 9:25

    …de. The trial of a good soldier is not in his chimney corner, but in the field of battle, 1 Cor. 9:25, 26, 2 Tim. 2:3, 4, 6. And, as the fruit of holy practice is the chief evidence of the tr…

  14. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life · William Law

    Concerning that part of devotion which relates to times and hours of prayer. Of daily early prayer in the morning. How we are to improve our forms of prayer, and how to increase the spirit of devotion cites 1 Cor. ix. 26

    … lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." [1 Cor. ix. 26, 27] After all, let it now be supposed, that you imagine there is no necessity for you to…

  15. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Christian Perfection cites 1 Cor. 9:26

    …Testament you are to bring your proofs, else you will fight as one that beateth the air. [1 Cor. 9:26] And the first of these which is usually brought is taken from the examples recorded in t…

  16. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XI. It is no sign that affections are right, or that they are wrong, that they make persons that have them exceeding confident that what they experience is divine, and that they are in a good estate cites 1 Cor. 9:26

    …f they practice Christianity after such a manner as to remain uncertain of the reward, in 1 Cor. 9:26: "I therefore so run, as not uncertainly." And to add no more, it is manifest, that Chris…

  17. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Part III cites 1 Cor. 9:26

    …e resurrection of the dead." And it was by this means chiefly that he obtained assurance: 1 Cor. 9:26, "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly." He obtained assurance of winning the prize, mo…

  18. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    Load thy conscience with the guilt of the perplexing distemper cites 1 Cor. ix. 27

    …to be insisted on, there is one expedient peculiarly suited; this is that of the apostle, 1 Cor. ix. 27, “I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.” The bringing of the very body into…

  19. Baptism with the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    How Spiritual Power is Lost cites 1 Corinthians 9:27

    …her." (Galatians 5:17) Paul wrote, "I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection." (1 Corinthians 9:27, Ephesians 5:18.). We live in a day when the temptation to the satisfaction of the flesh …

  20. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    The Normal Christian Life cites 1 Corinthians 9:27

    …aul answers by joining grace and training. “I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage” (1 Corinthians 9:27, ASV). “Exercise thyself unto godliness” (1 Timothy 4:7, ASV). Discipline becomes legalis…

  21. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.7 The Seventh Commandment cites 1 Cor 9: 27

    …ouds the mind, chokes good affections, and provokes lust. Paul did ‘keep under his body.’ 1 Cor 9: 27. The flesh pampered is apt to rebel. Corpus impinguatum recalcitrat. (11) Take heed of id…

  22. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Sixth Stage cites 1 Cor. 9:24-27

    … The crown is before you, and it is an incorruptible one; “so run that ye may obtain it.” 1 Cor. 9:24-27. Some there be that set out for this crown, and after they have gone far for it, another …