1 Corinthians 10:33
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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.

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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.

Lexicon
just as I
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

[try to] please
ἀρέσκω (areskō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 700: To please, with the idea of willing service rendered to others; hence almost: I serve. Probably from airo; to be agreeable.

everyone
πάντα (panta)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

in all [I do].
πᾶσιν (pasin)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

[For] I am not seeking
ζητῶν (zētōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2212: To seek, search for, desire, require, demand. Of uncertain affinity; to seek; specially, to worship, or to plot.

my [own]
ἐμαυτοῦ (emautou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1683: Genitive case compound of emou and autos; of myself so likewise the dative case emautoi em-ow-to', and accusative case emauton em-ow-ton'.

good,
σύμφορον (symphoron)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 4851: From sun and phero; to bear together, i.e. to collect, or to conduce; especially advantage.

but
ἀλλὰ (alla)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

[the good]
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

of many,
πολλῶν (pollōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 4183: Much, many; often.

that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

they may be saved.
σωθῶσιν (sōthōsin)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4982: To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect.


Additional Translations
just as I 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

even 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.

as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.
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