1 Corinthians 9:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 2:12 : 12 for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,
  • Rom 2:14 : 14 For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law -- to themselves are a law;
  • Gal 3:2 : 2 this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?
  • Matt 5:17-20 : 17 `Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets -- I did not come to throw down, but to fulfill; 18 for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass. 19 `Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands -- the least -- and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach `them', he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. 20 `For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.
  • Acts 15:28 : 28 `For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:
  • Acts 16:4 : 4 And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who `are' in Jerusalem,
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 `And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another, 14 for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; 2 honour thy father and mother, 3 which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, 2 for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,
  • Titus 2:2-9 : 2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; 3 aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, 4 that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children, 5 sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. 6 The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded; 7 concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, 8 discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you. 9 Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, 10 not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things. 11 For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, 12 teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 because this `is' the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
  • Rom 8:4 : 4 that the righteousness 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 To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled, 9 for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;' 10 the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, `is' the fulness of law.
  • 1 Cor 7:19-22 : 19 the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God. 20 Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain; 21 a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use `it' rather; 22 for he who `is' in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:
  • Gal 2:3-4 : 3 but not even Titus, who `is' with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised -- 4 and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,
  • Gal 2:12-14 : 12 for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision, 13 and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

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