Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. — Paul's freedom (eleutheros) paradoxically expresses itself as slavery (edoulōsa emauton). The rhetorical inversion: the free man enslaves himself to all (pasin) to maximize converts (kerdainō = gain, win). The verb 'made myself' (epoiēsa) indicates deliberate self-renunciation of privilege for evangelistic purpose.

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