1 CORINTHIANS 9:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. — The culminating principle: Gignōmai panta pasin (I have become all things to all people). Paul identifies this as soteriological (hina pantōs tinas sōsō = to save some by all possible means). Complete adaptability in external matters serves the singular goal of conversion. This is not unprincipled opportunism but principled renunciation for others' sake.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 9:22
“To the weak became I weak, that I might gain the weak:” in this part coming to their case, with a view to which also all these things have been spoken. However, those were much greater things, but this more to the purpose; whence also he has placed it after them. Indeed he did the same thing likewise in his Epistle to the Romans, when he was finding fault about meats; and so in many other places. Next, not to waste time by naming all severally, he says, “I have become all…
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