1Cor 9:20-23 | PNT | STEP | Unto the Jews I became as a Jew . With Jews he lived as a Jew in order to reach them. He observed their distinctions of meats, kept feasts ( ), and circumcised Timothy ( ). He observed the law to reach those who kept law.

1 Corinthians 9:20-23

Unto the Jews I became as a Jew. With Jews he lived as a Jew in order to reach them. He observed their distinctions of meats, kept feasts (Ac 18:21), and circumcised Timothy (Ac 16:3). He observed the law to reach those who kept law. To them that ate without law, as without law. To such, though in the sight of God keeping His law, he came not as an enforcer of the law of Moses. He spoke to Gentiles from a Gentile standpoint, as at Athens (Acts 17:22-31). To the weak became I as weak. Adapted himself to their weakness as he had directed the "strong" (1Co 4:10) at Corinth to do.

I am made all things to all [men], etc. While steadfastly keeping Christ's law he adapted himself to all men in the hope of gaining them. And this I do for the gospel's sake. All this self denial had in view a single object--the promotion of the gospel. Would that all Christians, from the same motive, would adapt themselves to all classes, in order to reach them.