1 Corinthians 9:21

and to those who have not the law, I was as without the law, (although I am not without law to God, but under the law of the Messiah,) that I might gain them that are without the law.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 with the Jews, I was as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; and with those under the law, I was as under the law, that I might gain them who are under the law;

22I was with the weak, as weak, that I might gain the weak: I was all things to all men, that I might vivify every one.

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Cross References

Acts 15:28For it was pleasing to the Holy Spirit, and to us, that there should not be laid upon you any additional burden, besides these necessary things:

Acts 21:25As to those of the Gentiles who have believed, we have written, that they should keep themselves from an idol's sacrifice, and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Romans 2:14for if Gentiles who have not the law, shall, by their nature, do the things of the law; they, while without the law, become a law to themselves:

Romans 7:25I thank God; by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah I shall be rescued. [ (Romans 7:26) Now, therefore, in my conscience, I am a servant of the law of God; but in my flesh, I am a servant of the law of sin.]

Romans 13:8And owe nothing to any one; but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbor, 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 →

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