1 Corinthians 9:22

I was with the weak, as weak, that I might gain the weak: I was all things to all men, that I might vivify every one.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

In Context

21and to those who have not the law, I was as without the law, (although I am not without law to God, but under the law of the Messiah,) that I might gain them that are without the law.

23And this I do, that I may participate in the announcement.

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Cross References

Romans 15:1We then who are strong, ought to bear the infirmity of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 8:13Wherefore, if food is a stumbling-block to my brother, I will for ever eat no flesh, lest I should be a stumbling-block to my brother.

1 Corinthians 10:33even as I also, in every thing, please every man; and do not seek what is profitable to me, but what is profitable to many; that they may live.

Galatians 6:1My brethren, if one of you should be overtaken in a fault, do ye who are of the Spirit recover him, in a spirit of meekness: and be ye cautious, lest ye also be tempted.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:20-24

The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 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. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain… Read the whole commentary →

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