To those who don’t have the law, I became like one who didn’t have the law (even though I’m not free from God’s law, but under Christ’s law), in order to win those who don’t have the law.
The Gentiles don’t have the law, but sometimes they naturally do what the law requires. When that happens, they’re being a law for themselves, even though they don’t have the law.
Instead, we are now able to do all the right things that the law requires, because we’re not controlled by those desires. We’re controlled by the Spirit.
Thanks be to God, who saves me through Jesus Christ our Lord. So in my mind, I’m a slave to God’s law. But if I follow my sinful desires, then I’m a slave to the law of sin.
We’ve already written a letter to the believers who aren’t Jews. We’ve told them not to eat food that has been offered to statues of gods, not to drink blood, not to eat meat that still has blood in it, and not to be sexually immoral.”
This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.