1 Corinthians 9:20 (WEB)
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
Fathers and councils · 10
Augustine of Hippo
“For if, because he said, “To the Jews became I as a Jew, and to them which were under the law as under the law,” he is therefore to be accounted to have in a lying manner taken up the sacraments of the old law, he ought in the same manner to have taken up, in a lying way,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20
Read the whole comment“To them that are under the law, I became as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 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.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19–21
Read the whole comment“For this he also lays as the foundation beforehand, when he says: “For although I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19–22.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.20Conference XVII
“…that I might gain those who were without law; to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might save all;” what does he show but that according to the weakness and the capacity of those who were being instructed he always lowered himself and relaxed something of the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20–22.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“So He will crown the divine Apostle who became to the Jews as a Jew, to them that were under the law as under the law, and to them that were without law as without law for his object in thus assuming an actor’s mask was that he might do good to mankind.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20, 21
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Gregory the Great
“Hence again he says, Unto the Jews I became as a Jew (1 Cor. ix. 20).” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“…the law, as under the law,”—and so here with respect to those who come in secretly,—“and lastly, how he became all things to all men, that he might gain all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20, 22.
Read the whole comment“…that even Paul said that he was “made all things to all men—to the Jews a Jew,” to those who were not Jews as one who was not a Jew—“that he might gain all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20, 22.
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Clement of Alexandria
““For not only for the Hebrews and those that are under the law,” according to the apostle, “is it right to become a Jew, but also a Greek for the sake of the Greeks, that we may gain all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“And every one that striveth for mastery is temperate in all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19–25.
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Cross-references · 16
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Parallel passages
Romans 3:19 and 1 Corinthians 9:20 share the same wording (16 words).
Quotes
1 Corinthians 9:20 takes up the words of Deuteronomy 2:25 (8 words in common).