24Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
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We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. …
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. …
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-33)In this passage the apostle shows in what instances, notwithstanding, Christians might lawfully eat what had been sacrificed to idols. They must not eat it out of religious respect to the idol, nor go into his temple, and hold a feast there, upon what they knew was an idol-sacrifice; nor perhaps out of the temple, if they knew it was a feast held upon a sacrifice, but there were cases wherein they…
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