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

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Bible References

Them

For the Holy Spirit and we have decided not to lay upon you any burden but these essential requirements,

As they journeyed on from town to town, they delivered to the brothers to keep the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.

As for the heathen who have become believers, we have sent them our resolution that they must avoid anything that is contaminated by idols, the tasting of blood, the meat of strangled animals, and sexual immorality."

All who sin without having the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

But they did not even try to compel my companion, Titus, although he was a Greek, to be circumcised --

I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard?

Not

Being circumcised or not being circumcised has no value, but keeping God's commands is important.

"Do not suppose that I have come to set aside the law or the prophets.

For in accordance with my better inner nature I approve God's law,

so that the requirement of the law might be fully met in us who do not live by the standard set by our lower nature, but by the standard set by the Spirit.

Stop owing anybody anything, except the obligation to love one another, for whoever practices loving others has perfectly satisfied the law.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

Now, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the face of our union with the Lord Jesus, as you once received from us how you ought to live so as to please God -- as indeed you are living -- to continue to live this life better and better.

the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible, healthy in faith, in love, and in steadfastness;

'For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel in those days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. And nevermore will each one need to teach his fellow-citizen,

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For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."

When He had said this, a Pharisee asked Him to lunch at his house, and He went in and took His place at table.

Each one of us must practice pleasing his neighbor, to help in his immediate upbuilding for his eternal good.

just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved.

But they did not even try to compel my companion, Titus, although he was a Greek, to be circumcised --

For you are aware of the instructions which we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.