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And what will become, dearest brother, of what the apostle says: "I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ."[19]
Verse 1 Corinthians 10:33. _EVEN AS I PLEASE ALL MEN_] Act as _I_ do: forgetting myself, my own interests, convenience, ease, and comfort, I labour for the welfare of others; and particularly that the...
EVEN AS I ... - Paul here proposes his own example as their guide. The example which he refers to is that which he had exhibited as described in this and the preceding chapters. His main object had be...
7. WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Warnings from Israel's past history. (1 Corinthians 10:4)._ 2. Exhortations. (1 Corinthians 10:15). The same subject is continued with this chapter. The...
1 Corinthians 10:23 to 1 Corinthians 11:1. From the meal in the idol's temple Paul passes to the question as it arose in daily life. He repeats that while all might be lawful all was not expedient (1...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
All things are allowed to me, but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed, but all things do not build up. Let no one think only of his own good, but let him think of the good of the ot...
PLEASE. Greek. _aresko._ PROFIT. Same as "expedient", 1 Corinthians 10:23. MANY. the many. THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina._...
ΣΎΜΦΟΡΟΝ אABC. συμφέρον rec. with DEFG....
_TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND WITHOUT OFFENCE 1 CORINTHIANS 10:23-33:_ Christians must be fully convinced that there is such a thing as right and wrong. The Christian is very much out of step with the thin...
ΠΆΝΤΑ _асс. pl. от_ ΠΆΣ (G3956) всякий. _асс._ общей ссылки, ΣΩΘΏΣΙΝ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΣΏΖΩ (G4982) спасать, избавлять. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) в _прид._ цели....
DISCOURSE: 1977 TRUE WISDOM AND CHARITY 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 11:1. Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God: even as I please all men in all...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 10:23-33. All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. 24 Let no man seek his own, but each his...
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. I PLEASE - I try to please (; ; ). NOT SEEKING MINE OWN ...
32 It has been customary, in the study of "dispensational" truth, to divide the human race into "the Jew, the Gentile, and the church of God", and base the division on this passage. It is well, howeve...
I PLEASE ALL _men_] cp. 1 Corinthians 9:22, and especially Romans 15:1, 'Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification': contrast Galatians 1:10....
_(B) FOOD OFFERED TO IDOLS_ In these Chapter s St. Paul answers another question of the Corinthians—as to the lawfulness of eating food which had been offered in sacrifice to idols. This was a very ur...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 *WARNINGS FROM ISRAEL’S HISTORY 10:1-13 *SPIRITUAL FOOD AND DRINK 10:1-5 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I do not want you to forget that a...
EVEN AS I PLEASE ALL MEN... — Better, _even as I in all things am seeking to please all men, not seeking my own profit, but that of the many_ — _i.e.,_ the whole great mass of men, and not, as the Eng...
CHAPTER 15 FALLACIOUS PRESUMPTIONS IN discussing the question regarding "things offered unto idols," Paul is led to treat at large of Christian liberty, a subject to which he was always drawn. And pa...
to 1 Corinthians 11:1. § 34. LIBERTY AND ITS LIMITS. The maxim “All things are lawful” was pleaded in defence of the use of the idolothyta, as of other Cor [1541] laxities; so the Ap. has to discuss i...
1 Corinthians 10:33; 1 Corinthians 11:1. Paul's personal example played a large part in his argument (1 Corinthians 10:9); it is fitting he should refer to it in summing up. The negative ἀπρόσκοποι γί...
“DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD” 1 Corinthians 10:23; 1 Corinthians 11:1 There seems to be a, clear distinction in the Apostle's directions between feasting in an idol temple on the one hand, and the acc...
A great warning based on an illustration in Israel's history is contained in these words, "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." To this warning the apostle adds that th...
Sacrificing To Save A Brother Obviously, the strong could have been thankful for any meat and eaten. The apostle asked whether they should allow their freedom to cause another to fall and speak evil o...
VV. 10:33-11:1. “even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. 1 Corinthians 11:1. Become imitators of me, as I am of Christ....
REFLECTIONS Who would have thought, on reading Israel's history in coming up out of Egypt, that all the great outlines of Christ's Church is here shadowed forth? Yes! my soul, thy deliverance from the...
(23) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. (24) Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. (25) Whatsoev...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
33._Even as I please all men in all this _As he speaks in a general way, and without exception, some extend it by mistake to things that are unlawful, and at variance with the word of the Lord — as if...
The apostle then gives the Corinthians the ways of God with Israel in the wilderness, as instruction with regard to His ways with us, declaring that the things which happened to them were types or fig...
EVEN AS I PLEASE ALL MEN IN ALL THINGS,.... The apostle sets himself as an example, though he was far from being a man pleaser, in the bad sense of that phrase; nor must these all things, in which he...
Even as I please all _men_ in all _things_, not seeking mine own profit, but the _profit_ of many, that they may be saved. Ver. 33. _Not seeking mine own profit_] This, saith Chrysostom, is the most...
_Whether, therefore_, &c. To close the present point with a general rule, applicable not only in this, but in all cases, see to it that _whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do_ In all things wha...
PLEASE ALL MEN IN ALL THINGS; so far as is consistent with fidelity to God and to them....
EVEN AS I PLEASE ALL MEN IN ALL THINGS, NOT SEEKING MINE OWN PROFIT, BUT THE PROFIT OF MANY, THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED. In applying the principle of Christian love, the apostle states a general maxim of...
The conclusion:...
Just as, in the end of chapter 9, Paul shows himself willing to submit to a serious test as to the reality of his Christianity, so in the first of chapter 10 it is plain that all who claim the place o...
EVEN AS. ALSO PLEASE ALL MEN IN ALL THINGS, NOT SEEKING MINE OWN PROFIT, BUT THE PROFIT OF THE MANY, THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED. 'even as. also' -referring to his own example previously given in 1 Corin...
23-33 There were cases wherein Christians might eat what had been offered to idols, without sin. Such as when the flesh was sold in the market as common food, for the priest to whom it had been given...
EVEN AS I PLEASE ALL MEN IN ALL THINGS; that is, in all things wherein the law of God hath left me a liberty; for Paul pleased no man, either in the omission of any thing which God had commanded him t...
_ even as I also please all men in all things_ [indifferent or permissible], _not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved_....
1 Corinthians 10:33 as G2531 I G2504 please G700 (G5719) all G3956 all G3956 not G3361 seeking G2212 ...
'Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God, even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they ma...
1 Corinthians 10:33. EVEN AS I ALSO PLEASE ALL MEN IN ALL THINGS all things indifferent (as the next verse makes plain). NOT SEEKING MINE OWN PROFIT, BUT THE _PROFIT _ OF THE MANY, THAT THEY MAY BE S...
_Attendance at Idolatrous Feasts, 1 Corinthians 10:14_ to 1 Corinthians 11:1 When the first love of the converts began to cool, and, as a natural consequence, they drew closer to their heathen acquain...
It was impossible for Christians in almost any Greek or Roman colony, and least of all at Corinth, to avoid coming frequently in contact with idolatrous practices in various and ensnaring forms. In wr...
MINE OWN PROFIT (το εμουτου συμφερον). Old word from συμφερω, to bear together, and explains use of verb in verse 1 Corinthians 10:23.THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED (ινα σωθωσιν). First aorist passive sub...
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
1 Corinthians 10:15. I Speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion...
CONTENTS: Israel in the wilderness, a warning example. Fellowship of the Lord's table demands separation. Law of love in relation to eating and drinking. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Moses. CONCLU...
1 Corinthians 10:1. _I would not have you ignorant_ of the grand point, the foundation of the Hebrew religion; _that our fathers,_ for such was the usual language of the jews and proselytes respecting...
JUST DO AS I DO. Where no principle of Truth was involved, Paul tried to please everyone! See 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 and notes....
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER From speaking of the contest, in which those who deny themselves and strive lawfully are rewarded, and in which the slothful and self-indulgent are condemned and pu...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 10:1.—Notice “_for_,” true reading, connecting closely with ix. _ult. Q.d_. “I am not secure from becoming a ‘castaway’; you are not yet sure of the prize; _for_ it is e...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 _Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations._ 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 MOREOVER; rather, _for. _He has just shown them, by his own ex
Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and passed through the sea (1 Corinthians 10:1); Now he is talking about their forefathers w...
1 Corinthians 10:24; 1 Corinthians 9:19; 2 Corinthians 11:28; 2 Corinthians 11:29;...
Even as I, as much as lieth in me, please all men....
The last rule which the apostle lays down, is his own practice and example, who in indifferent things accommodated himself to all men. I PLEASE ALL MEN; that is,. seek and endeavour to please all men,...