1 Corinthians 9:19

• §876Paragraph 4 · Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated LifeRead at vatican.va

  “Because the word and grace of which they are ministers are not their own, but are given to them by Christ for the sake of others, they must freely become the slaves of all.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 9:19.

Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, Letters Letter 22

  “No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren; but “every man in his own order.”” — editor's note: cf. 1 Cor. ix. 19.

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 82

  “Either as a pontiff, let him exercise authority over all alike, or as a follower of the apostle, let him serve all for the salvation of all.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ix. 19.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12

  “To them that are under the law, I became as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19–21

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount II.19Book II

  “For this he also lays as the foundation beforehand, when he says: “For although I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19–22.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 13

  “I am mindful that I am free from the world, not from God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19; sæculo.

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• Tertullian, On Idolatry Chapter 18

  “For they, even by their circumstances, were slaves; but you, the slave of none, in so far as you are the slave of Christ alone, who has freed you likewise from the captivity of the world, will incur the duty of acting after your Lord’s pattern.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. ix. 19.

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.14Book IV

  “And every one that striveth for mastery is temperate in all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19–25.

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• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.15Book VI

  “…does not justify; for he professed that “all things were for all” by conformity, preserving those of the dogmas that were essential, “that he might gain all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19. [Note τὰ κύρια τῶν δογμάτων.]

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• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.9Book VII

  “But that he might not, by dragging all at once away from the law to the circumcision of the heart through faith those of the Hebrews who were reluctant listeners, compel them to break away from the synagogue, he, “accommodating himself to the Jews, became a Jew that he might gain all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19, etc.

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• Galatians 5:13

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.19.

• Ephesians 2:11

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.9.

• Ephesians 5:27

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.19.

• Philippians 2:7

  Cited together in Catechism §876.

• Colossians 2:5

  Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.

• Song of Songs 4:1

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.19.

• Romans 1:1

  Cited together in Catechism §876.

• Romans 2:25

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.9 and 1 other place.

• Romans 12:15

  Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.

• 1 Corinthians 5:3

  Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.

• 1 Corinthians 7:18

  Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.