1 Corinthians 9:21

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Summary

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.

Them

Not

General references

Bible References

Them

"For it has seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

And as they went on their way through the cities they handed them the resolutions which the apostles and the elders in Jerusalem had ordained for them to keep.

"As for the Gentile believers, we wrote giving judgment that they should abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.

Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"

Not

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commands in everything.

"Do not suppose that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil.

For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God;

in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

"For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel, After these days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their minds, And upon their hearts will I write them; And I will be their God, And they shall be my people;

General references

"you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."

When he had finished speaking a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in with him and reclined.

Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding.

For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.

For you know what charges I laid upon you through the Lord Jesus.