1 CORINTHIANS 9:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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;”
To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. — Paul's adaptability: metaschēmatizō (I change shape, conform). To Jews, he lives Jewishly; to those observing Torah, he accommodates. The parenthetical disclaimer—though not personally under law—establishes his freedom: he submits voluntarily for the sake of evangelism. Cultural accommodation is not hypocrisy but strategic love.
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