1 Corinthians 9:21

to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

20And to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those who are under law, as under law, (not being myself under law,) that I might gain those who are under law;

22to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

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Cross References

Acts 15:28For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

Acts 21:25But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.

Romans 2:14For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Romans 7:25I thank God that I shall be delivered through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.

Romans 13:8Owe no one any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another, has fulfilled the law.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:20-24

The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 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. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain… Read the whole commentary →

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