1 Corinthians 9:21

To those outside the law, I became like one outside the law, although I was not outside the law of God myself, but under the law of Christ. I did this so that I may win those outside the law.

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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

20To the Jews I became like a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law, I became like one under the law in order to win those under the law. I did this even though I myself was not under the law. + 9:20 The ULB and UDB read, I did this even though I was not under the law myself . Some older versions leave this passage out.

22To the weak I became weak, so that I may win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by all means save some.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:32I will run in the path of your commandments, 1 for you enlarge my heart to do so. HE 1

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

Acts 21:25But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote and gave the instructions that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

Romans 2:14For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, they are a law to themselves, although they do not have the law.

Romans 7:25But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind. However, with the flesh I serve the principle of sin.

Romans 13:8Owe no one anything, except to love one another. For he who loves his neighbor 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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