For it was the Holy Spirit’s decision #– #and ours #– #not to place further burdens on you beyond these requirements:
1 Corinthians 9:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised To those who are without the law, like one without the law #– #though I am not without God’s law but under the law of Christ #– #to win those without the law. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
For it was the Holy Spirit’s decision #– #and ours #– #not to place further burdens on you beyond these requirements:
As they travelled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for the people to observe.
With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.’
For all who sin without the law will also perish without the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
So, when Gentiles, who do not by nature have the law, do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.
in order that the law’s requirement would be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard?
Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.