1 Corinthians 9:21
To those who don't operate according to the law, I behave like them (though not disregarding God's law, but operating under the law of Christ), so that I might gain those who don't observe the law.
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Psalms 119:32I run to follow your commands, for you have expanded my mind!
Acts 15:28It seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place on you any heavier burden than these important requirements.
Acts 21:25As to the foreigners who have trusted the Lord, we already wrote a letter regarding our decision that they should refrain from eating food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from any animal that is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
Romans 2:14The foreigners don't have the written law, but when they instinctively do what it says, they are following the law even without having the written law.
Romans 7:25Here's the situation: while I myself choose with my mind to obey God's law, my human nature obeys the law of sin.
Romans 13:8Don't owe anybody anything, except love for one another—for those who love their neighbor have kept 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 →