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 will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
• Rom 2:14(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
• Gal 3:2I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
• 1 Cor 7:19–22Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• Matt 5:17–20“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
• Titus 2:2–12that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
• Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.
• Acts 16:4As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
• Gal 2:3–4But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Rom 13:8–10Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
• 1 Th 4:1–2Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• Gal 2:12–14For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who 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, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Rom 8:4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Acts 21:25But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
• Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Acts 15:28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

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