I brought myself under bondage (εμαυτον εδουλωσα). Voluntary bondage, I enslaved myself to all, though free. Causative verb in -οω…

For though I be free. I am a freeman. I am under obligation to none. I am not bound to give them my labors, and at the same time to toil f…

For.—The question is here answered. His reward was to gain the greater number of converts—Jews (1 Corinthians 9:20), G…

Going beyond his right to financial support, the apostle now discusses other areas of life in which he has forfeited his right to freedom in order …

Though I was free from all. Εκ πάντων, that is, from all, may be understood in either the neuter or the masculine gender. If in t…

For though I be free from all men
As an apostle, being in the highest office in the church, he had none superior to …

It is the glory of a minister to deny himself, so that he may serve Christ and save souls. But when a minister gives up his right for the sake of t…