1 Corinthians 9:21

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To those free from the law I became like one free from the law(though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

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  • Rom 2:12 : 12 For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
  • Rom 2:14 : 14 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.
  • Gal 3:2 : 2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?
  • Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Fulfillment of the Law and Prophets“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place. 19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
  • Acts 15:28 : 28 For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules:
  • Acts 16:4 : 4 As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.”
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely, 3 “that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • Titus 2:2-9 : 2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. 3 Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good. 4 In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited. 6 Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled, 7 showing yourself to be an example of good works in every way. In your teaching show integrity, dignity, 8 and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us. 9 Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to do what is wanted and not talk back, 10 not pilfering, but showing all good faith, in order to bring credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything. 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. 12 It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
  • Rom 8:4 : 4 so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Exhortation to Love Neighbors Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
  • 1 Cor 7:19-22 : 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts. 20 Let each one remain in that situation in life in which he was called. 21 Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity. 22 For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.
  • Gal 2:3-4 : 3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek. 4 Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.
  • Gal 2:12-14 : 12 Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also joined with him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray with them by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so.

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  • 1 Cor 9:18-20
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    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

    19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

    20To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law(though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.

  • 1 Cor 9:22-23
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    22To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

    23I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

  • Gal 2:16-19
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    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

    17But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

    18But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

  • Rom 2:14
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    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

  • Rom 7:9
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    9And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

  • Gal 4:21
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    21An Appeal from Allegory Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

  • Phil 3:6-7
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    6In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

    7But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

  • Rom 3:21
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    21But now apart from the law the righteousness of God(although it is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed–

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

  • Phil 1:21
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    21For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

  • Gal 3:24
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    24Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

  • Rom 15:21
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    21but as it is written:“Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

    31but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

  • Gal 3:21
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    21Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
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    8Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?

  • Phil 3:12
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    12Keep Going Forward Not that I have already attained this– that is, I have not already been perfected– but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

  • Gal 4:5
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    5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

  • Gal 4:12
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    12I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

  • Gal 6:13-14
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    13For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

    14But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Eph 2:12
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    12that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

  • Rom 10:4
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    4For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”

  • Rom 3:9
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    9The Condemnation of the World What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

  • Rom 15:18
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    18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

  • Phil 1:17
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    17The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about(I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

  • Rom 10:2
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    2For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.