1 Corinthians 9:21
To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
20And I became to the Jews, a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:
Cross References
Acts 15:28For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:
Acts 21:25But as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written, decreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has been offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangles, and from fornication.
Romans 2:14For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these having not the law are a law to themselves:
Romans 7:25The grace of God, by 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 man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour, hath 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 →