1 Corinthians 9:21

To those without the Law (Gentiles), Paul lived as one outside it—yet never lawless before God, but under the law of Christ—to win them. He adapts to Gentiles while remaining bound to Christ.

Cross-references · 21

• Rom 2:12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
• Rom 2:14Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
• Gal 3:2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
• 1 Cor 7:19–22Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
• Matt 5:17–20Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
• Titus 2:2–12Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
• Rom 7:25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
• Acts 16:4As they went from town to town, they delivered the decisions handed down by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
• Gal 2:3–4Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
• Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Rom 13:8–10Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
• 1 Th 4:1–2Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• Gal 2:12–14For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
• Eph 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Rom 8:4so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• Acts 21:25As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
• Heb 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Acts 15:28It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements:

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