1 Corinthians 9:21

To the ones without Gezetz, as without Gezetz, though not being without the Torah of Hashem + 9:21 Ac 21:23 but being under Moshiachʼs Torah, + 9:21 Ro 15:8; Isa 42:4 that I might win the ones without Gezetz.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 I became to the Yehudim as a Yehudi, that I might win Yehudim; to the ones under Gezetz, I became as under Gezetz — not being myself under [the epoch of] Gezetz + 9:20 Ro 8:2 — that the ones under Gezetz I might win;

22I became weak to the weak ones that I might win the weak ones. I have become all things to kol Bnei Adam, that by all means I might save some.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:32I will run the derech of Thy mitzvot, 1 for Thou shalt set my lev free. ה HEH 1

Acts 15:28For it was mekabel to the Ruach Hakodesh and to us to lay no heavier burden upon you who are from the Nations except these necessary things:

Acts 21:25And concerning the Goyim coming to + 21:25 Orthodox Jewish emunah, we have sent an iggeret with our decision that they avoid what is offered to elilim and dahm and what is strangled and zenut.

Romans 2:14For when non-Jews + 2:14 Ro 11:13 who have not a Torah, may do by nature + 2:14 See 2Kgs 1:4 what the Torah requires, + 2:14 see Ro 8:4 they not having a Torah are a gezetz (law) for themselves,

Romans 7:25Hodu l' Hashem (thanks be to G-d) b'Moshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu. So then I myself with my mind serve the Torah of Hashem and with my basar I serve the Gezetz of Chet (the Law of Sin). + 7:25 The total spiritual turn-around here described is when the conviction of the intellect, emotion, and will “obey from the heart the form of doctrine laid out here in Scripture” as we are born anew in the humanity of the new Man and die to the old depraved Adam

Romans 13:8Owe (be indebted, obligated) nothing to anyone except a choiv (debt) of ahavah (love); for he who has ahavah has fulfilled the Torah.

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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