1 Corinthians 9:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²¹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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

²¹ 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)

²¹ 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

²¹ 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

²¹ 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.

1 Corinthians 9:21 Cross References

Romans 2:12

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law;

Galatians 3:2

This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Romans 2:14

for when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law unto themselves;

Romans 8:4

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

Romans 7:25

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Acts 21:25

But as touching the Gentiles which have believed, we wrote, giving judgement that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

Acts 16:4

And as they went on their way through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, which had been ordained of the apostles and elders that were at Jerusalem.

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart. ה HE

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

Acts 15:28

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

Galatians 6:2

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.