1 Corinthians 10:33 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³³Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 10:33 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
Galatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:19-23
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. …
Romans 15:2-3
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. …
Romans 11:14
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

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Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 33)

33. I please--I try to please (1Co 9:19, 22; Ro 15:2). not seeking mine own--(1Co 10:24). many--rather as Greek, “THE many.”