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To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
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Commentators explain that Paul's strategy of becoming 'all things to all men' was about loving accommodation. He would willingly set aside his personal freedoms and preferences in non-essential matters (like food or customs) to avoid offending others and remove unnecessary barriers to them hearing the gospel. This is a call to prioritize saving souls over asserting personal rights.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
To the weak. See Barnes on Romans 15:1.
To those weak in faith, scrupulous about certain observances, whose consciences were tender…
I became weak (εγενομην ασθενης). This is the chief point, the climax in his plea for the principle of love on the part of the enl…
19th Century
Anglican
To the weak.—We can scarcely take this (as some do) to refer to weak Christians, of whom he has spoken in 1 Corinthians 8. The who…
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Baptist
I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof wit…
Those with a “weak” (GK 822) conscience (cf. 8:9–12) he also wants to be sure to win. With them he becomes “weak”—that is, he refrains from exercis…
16th Century
Protestant
To the weak I became as weak. Now again he employs a general statement, in which he shows to what sort of persons he accommodated himself,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To the weak became I as weak That is, to weak Christians, who were weak in faith, and had not such clear knowledge o…
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…
