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1 Cor. 9:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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To them that are without law, as without law, (being notu without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

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1 Cor. 7:22• ²²For the bondman called in [the] Lord is [the] Lord's freedman; likewise, he that was called free is Christ's bondman. (1 Cor. 7:22)

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Acts 15:28• ²⁸For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things: (Acts 15:28)

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Acts 16:4• ⁴And as they passed through the cities, they delivered them the decrees to observe, which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. (Acts 16:4)

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Acts 21:25• ²⁵But, as touching the Gentiles that believed, we wrote, giving judgment, that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication. (Acts 21:25)

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Rom. 2:12,14• ¹²For as many as without law have sinned without law also shall perish; and as many as have sinned in law shall be judged by law
¹⁴For when Gentiles which have no law practice by nature the things of the law, these having no law are a law to themselves; (Rom. 2:12,14)

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Gal. 2:3‑4,12‑14• ³(but neither was Titus, that was with me, being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised;)
⁴and [this] on account of the false brethren brought in stealthily, who came in stealthily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring into bondage,
¹²for before that certain came from James, he ate with the nations; but when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, being afraid of those of the circumcision;
¹³and the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.
¹⁴But when I saw that they walk not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest nationally and not Jewishly, how forcest thou the nations to judaize? (Gal. 2:3‑4,12‑14)

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Gal. 3:2• ²This only I wish to learn from you; received ye the Spirit by works of law, or by the report of faith? (Gal. 3:2)

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1 Cor. 7:19‑22• ¹⁹Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments.
²⁰Let each abide in that calling in which he was called.
²¹Wast thou called a bondman? Let it not be a care to thee; but if also thou canst be free, use [it] rather.
²²For the bondman called in [the] Lord is [the] Lord's freedman; likewise, he that was called free is Christ's bondman. (1 Cor. 7:19‑22)

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Psa. 119:32• (Psa. 119:32)

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Matt. 5:17‑20• ¹⁷Think ye not that I came to destroy the law and the prophets; I came not to destroy but to fulfil.
¹⁸For verily I say to you, Till the heaven and the earth pass, one iota or one point shall in no wise pass from the law till all things come to pass.
¹⁹Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall do and teach [them], he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
²⁰For I say to you that, except your righteousness surpass [that] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of the heavens. (Matt. 5:17‑20)

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Rom. 7:22,25• ²²For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
²⁵I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind am serving God's law, but with the flesh sin's law. (Rom. 7:22,25)

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Rom. 8:4• ⁴that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us that walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit. (Rom. 8:4)

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Rom. 13:8‑10• ⁸To none owe anything unless to love one another; for he that loveth the other hath fulfilled law.
⁹For “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” “Thou shalt not kill,” “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not lust,” and if [there be] any other commandment, in this word it is summed up, in “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
¹⁰Love worketh no ill to one's neighbour; love therefore is law's fullness. (Rom. 13:8‑10)

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Gal. 5:13‑14,22‑23• ¹³For ye have been called for freedom, brethren: only [use] not your freedom for an opportunity to the flesh; but by love serve one another.
¹⁴For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control:
²³against such things there is no law. (Gal. 5:13‑14,22‑23)

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Eph. 6:1‑3• ¹Children, obey your parents in [the] Lord; for this is just.
²Honour thy father and thy mother, which is a commandment first in promise,
³that it may be well for thee, and thou shalt be long-lived on the earth. (Eph. 6:1‑3)

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1 Thess. 4:1‑2• ¹Further, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as also ye do walk, ye abound still more.
²For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus. (1 Thess. 4:1‑2)

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Titus 2:2‑12• ²that elder men be sober, grave, discreet, healthful in their faith, in their love, in their patience;
³that aged women likewise be in deportment reverent, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good;
⁴that they may train the young women to be lovers of husbands, lovers of children,
⁵discreet, chaste, workers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God be not ill-spoken of.
⁶The younger men likewise exhort to be right-minded,
⁷in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works, in the teaching uncorruptness, gravity,
⁸healthy speech that cannot be condemned, that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil to say concerning us:
⁹bond-servants to be in subjection to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not gainsaying,
¹⁰not purloining, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
¹¹For the grace of God appeared bringing salvation to all men,
¹²instructing us that, having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godlily in this present age, (Titus 2:2‑12)

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Heb. 8:10• ¹⁰Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people. (Heb. 8:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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to those without lawa, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimatelyb subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

JND Translation Notes

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Anomos, "without law". This is important as showing the true force of the Greek word anomia employed elsewhere, as in 1 John 3.4, "sin is lawlessness," not "transgression of law."

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Or, "under law to Christ" (not under the law), i.e. rightfully, duly, subject to Him. I have said "legitimately" to preserve the connection with law. See Acts 19.39, "regular," i.e. lawful and right.

W. Kelly Translation

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to those without law, as without law, not being without law to Goda, but under law to Christ, that I might gain those without law.

WK Translation Notes

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See note to verse 20.