1 Corinthians 9:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

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  • Rom 2:12 : 12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;
  • Rom 2:14 : 14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;
  • Gal 3:2 : 2 Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
  • Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete. 18 Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done. 19 Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.
  • Acts 15:28 : 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;
  • Acts 16:4 : 4 And on their way through the towns, they gave them the rules which had been made by the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem, so that they might keep them.
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another. 14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, 23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more. 2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • Titus 2:2-9 : 2 That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind. 3 That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good, 4 Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children, 5 To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God. 6 To the young men give orders to be wise and serious-minded: 7 In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour, 8 Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us. 9 Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument; 10 Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour. 11 For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men, 12 Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
  • Rom 8:4 : 4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law. 9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. 10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.
  • 1 Cor 7:19-22 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value. 20 Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God. 21 If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it. 22 For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.
  • Gal 2:3-4 : 3 But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision: 4 And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;
  • Gal 2:12-14 : 12 For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways. 14 But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.

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    18What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

    19For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

    20And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

  • 1 Cor 9:22-23
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    22To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

    23And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

  • Gal 2:16-19
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    16Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

    17But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

    18For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

    19For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

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    14For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

  • Rom 2:12
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    12All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

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    9And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

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    33Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.

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    9And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

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    21Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

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    21I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

  • Phil 3:6-7
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    6In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

    7But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

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    21But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

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    12I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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    21For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

  • Gal 3:24
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    24So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

  • Rom 15:21
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    21But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

    31But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

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    15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

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    2If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

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    4You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

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    21Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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    8Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

  • Phil 3:12
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    12Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    5That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

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    12My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

  • Gal 6:13-14
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    13Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

    14But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

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    12That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

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    18And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

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    5For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

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    17But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

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    9For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

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    2For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.