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 2:12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
• Rom 2:14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
• Gal 3:2This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
• 1 Cor 7:19–22Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• Matt 5:17–20Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
• Titus 2:2–12That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
• Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
• Acts 16:4And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
• Ps 119:32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
• Gal 2:3–4But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Rom 13:8–10Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
• 1 Th 4:1–2Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• Gal 5:13–14For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• Gal 2:12–14For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
• 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, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Rom 8:4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Acts 21:25As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
• Heb 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
• Acts 15:28For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

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