1 Corinthians 9:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not outside God’s law but am within Christ’s law) so that I might gain those outside the law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

To those without (outside) law I became as one without law, not that I am without the law of God and lawless toward Him, but that I am [especially keeping] within and committed to the law of Christ, that I might win those who are without law.

American Standard Version (1901)

to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.

Common English Bible

I act like I’m outside the Law to those who are outside the Law, so I can recruit those outside the Law (though I’m not outside the law of God but rather under the law of Christ).

Catholic Public Domain Version

To those who are under the law, I became as if I were under the law, (though I was not under the law) so that I might gain those who were under the law. To those who were without the law, I became as if I were without the law, (though I was not without the law of God, being in the law of Christ) so that I might gain those who were without the law.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.

1 Corinthians 9:21 Cross References

Psalm 119:32

I run the way of your commandments, for you enlarge my understanding.

Acts 15:28

For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials:

Acts 16:4

As they went from town to town, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.

Acts 21:25

But as for the gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from sexual immorality.”

Romans 2:12

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 in accordance with the law.

Romans 2:14

When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin.

Romans 8:4

so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Galatians 3:2

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?

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Hebrews 8:10

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.