1 Corinthians 9:21
and to those without the law as without the law, (not being without law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.
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Acts 15:28For it seemed good to the holy Spirit, and so to us, to lay no more burthen upon you than these necessary things.
Acts 21:25But as to the believing Gentiles, we have written and determined, that they need observe no such thing; only to keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from any thing strangled, and from fornication.
Romans 2:14for when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves,
Romans 7:25The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 13:8Owe no one any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth others 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 →