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Adapt for the Gospel
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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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 9:22
18th Century
Theologian
To the weak. See Barnes on Romans 15:1.
To those weak in faith, scrupulous about certain observances, whose consciences were tender…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 9:22
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…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 9:22
19th Century
Bishop
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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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 9:22–24
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 9:22
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…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 9:22
16th Century
Theologian
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,…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 9:22
17th Century
Pastor
To the weak became I as weak
That is, to weak Christians, who were weak in faith, and had not such clear knowledge o…
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…