1 Corinthians 9:21

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

To them that were without lawe be ca I as though I had bene without lawe (whe I was not without lawe as perteyninge to god but vnder a lawe as concerninge Christ) to wynne the that were without lawe.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοῖς ἀνόμοις, ὡς ἄνομος, (μὴ ὢν ἄνομος Θεῷ, ἀλλʼ ἔννομος Χριστῷ,) ἵνα κερδήσω ἀνόμους.

Transliteration

To the ones anomois, as anomos, (not ōn anomos to Theō, but ennomos to Christō,) that I might kerdēsō anomous.

Grammar Details

• *anomois*: dative, masculine, plural - without law
• *anomos*: nominative, masculine, singular - without law
• *ōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - being
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - to God
• *ennomos*: nominative, masculine, singular - under law/within law
• *Christō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Christ
• *kerdēsō*: aorist subjunctive, 1st person singular - might gain/win
• *anomous*: accusative, masculine, plural - those without law

Word Meanings

• *anomois*: those without law/lawless ones/Gentiles
• *anomos*: without law/lawless/outside the law
• *ennomos*: under law/within law/subject to law
• *kerdēsō*: might gain/might win/might profit
• *anomous*: those without law/lawless ones/Gentiles

Referenced Verses

• Rom 2:12 : 12 And as many as haue synned vnder the lawe shalbe iudged by the lawe.
• Rom 2:14 : 14 For if the gentyls which have no lawe do of nature the thynges contayned in the lawe: then they havynge no lawe are a lawe vnto them selves
• Gal 3:2 : 2 This only wolde I learne of you: receaved ye the sprete by the dedes of ye lawe or els by preachinge of ye faith?
• Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Thinke not yt I am come to destroye the lawe or the Prophets: no I am nott come to destroye them but to fulfyll them. 18 For truely I saye vnto you till heven and erth perisshe one iott or one tytle of the lawe shall not scape tyll all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever breaketh one of these lest commaundmentes and teacheth men so he shalbe called the leest in the kyngdome of heve. But whosoever obserueth and teacheth ye same shal be called greate in the kyngdome of heven. 20 For I saye vnto you except youre rightewesnes excede the righetewesnes of ye Scribes and Pharises ye canot entre into ye kyngdome of heven.
• Acts 15:28 : 28 For it semed good to the holy gost and to vs to put no grevous thinge to you more then these necessary thinges:
• Acts 16:4 : 4 As they went thorow ye cities they delyvered the the decrees for to kepe ordeyned of the Apostles and elders which were at Ierusalem.
• Acts 21:25 : 25 For as touchinge the gentyls which beleve we have written and concluded yt they observe no soche thinges: but that they kepe them selves from thinges offred to ydoles from bloud fro strangled and fro fornicacion.
• Gal 5:13-14 : 13 Brethre ye were called in to (libertie) only let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesshe but in love serve one another. 14 For all ye lawe is fulfilled in one worde which is this: thou shalt love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But ye frute of sprete is loue ioye peace longesufferinge getlenes goodnes faythfulnes 23 meknes temperancye. Agaynst suche ther is no lawe.
• Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Chyldren obey youre fathers and mothers in the Lorde: for so is it right. 2 Honoure thy father and mother that is the fyrst commaundement that hath eny promes 3 that thou mayst be in good estate and lyve longe on the erthe.
• 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Further more we beseche you brethren and exhorte you in the LORde Iesus that ye increace more and more euen as ye have receaved of vs how ye ought to walke and to please god. 2 Ye remember what commaundmetes we gave you in oure LORde Iesu Christ.
• Titus 2:2-9 : 2 That ye elder me be sober honest discrete sounde in the fayth in love and in paciece. 3 And ye elder weme lykewyse that they be in soche rayment as becommeth holynes not falce accusars not geven to moche drinkynge but teachers of honest thynges 4 to make the younge wemen sobremynded to love their husbandes to love their children 5 to be discrete chast huswyfly good and obediet vnto their awne husbandes that the worde of god be not evyll spoken of. 6 Yonge men lykwyse exhorte that they be sobre mynded. 7 Above all thynges shewe thy silfe an insample of good workes with uncorrupt doctryne with honestie and with the wholsome 8 worde which cannot be rebuked that he which withstondeth maye be a shamed havynge no thinge in you yt he maye disprayse. 9 The servautes exhorte to be obediet vnto their awne masters and to please in all thynges not answerynge agayne 10 nether be pickers but that they shewe all good faythfulnes that they maye do worshippe to ye doctryne of oure saveoure God in all thynges. 11 For the grace of god that bryngeth saluacion vnto all men hath appered 12 and teacheth vs that we shuld denye vngodlynes and wordly lustes and that we shuld live sobre mynded righteously and godly in this present worlde
• Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the testament that I will make with the housse of Israhell: After those dayes sayth the LORde: I will put my lawes in their myndes and in their hertes I will wryte the and I wilbe their God and they shalbe my people.
• Rom 7:22 : 22 I delite in the lawe of God concerninge the inner man.
• Rom 7:25 : 25 I thanke God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde. So then I my silfe in my mynde serve the lawe of God and in my flesshe the lawe of synne.
• Rom 8:4 : 4 that the rightewesnes requyred of the lawe myght be fulfilled in vs which walke not after the flesshe but after the sprete.
• Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Owe nothinge to eny man: but to love one another. For he that loveth another fulfylleth the lawe. 9 For these commaundementes: Thou shalt not comit advoutry: Thou shalt not kyll: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnes: Thou shalt not desyre and so forth (yf there be eny other comaundement) they are all comprehended in this sayinge: Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe. 10 Love hurteth not his neghbour. Therfore is love the fulfillynge of the lawe.
• 1 Cor 7:19-22 : 19 Circumcision is nothinge vncircumcision is nothinge: but the kepyng of the comaundmentes of god is altogether. 20 Let every man abyde in the same state wherin he was called. 21 Arte thou called a servaut? care not for it. Neverthelesse yf thou mayst be fre vse it rather. 22 For he that is called in the LORde beynge a servaunt is the LORdes freman. Lykwyse he that is called beynge fre is Christes servaut.
• Gal 2:3-4 : 3 Also Titus which was with me though he were a Greke yet was not compelled to be circumcised 4 and that because of incomers beynge falce brethren which came in amoge other to spye out oure libertie which we have in Christ Iesus that they might bringe vs into bondage.
• Gal 2:12-14 : 12 For yerr that certayne came fro Iames he ate with the gentyls. But when they were come he withdrue and separated him selfe fearinge them which were of ye circumcision. 13 And ye other Iewes dissembled lyke wyse in so moche that Barnabas was brought into their simulacio also. 14 But when I sawe that they went not the ryght waye after the trueth of the gospell I sayde vnto Peter before all men yf thou beynge a Iewe livest after the maner of the gentyls and not as do the Iewes: why causest thou the getyls to live as do the Iewes?