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Freedom Through Servitude
Commentators unanimously highlight that Paul's service was a deliberate choice. Though free from all human obligations and the ceremonial law, he voluntarily 'enslaved' himself. This demonstrates that true Christian freedom is not the right to do as one pleases, but the liberty to set aside personal rights and preferences to serve others for the gospel's sake.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 9:19
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 9:19
I brought myself under bondage (εμαυτον εδουλωσα). Voluntary bondage, I enslaved myself to all, though free. Causative verb in -οω…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 9:19
19th Century
Bishop
For.—The question is here answered. His reward was to gain the greater number of converts—Jews (1 Corinthians 9:20), G…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 9:19
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 …
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 9:19
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 9:19
17th Century
Pastor
For though I be free from all men
As an apostle, being in the highest office in the church, he had none superior to …
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 9:15–23
17th Century
Minister
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…