I will run in the way of thy commandments when thou enlargest my understanding!
1 Corinthians 9:21 - Revised Standard Version To those outside the law I became as one outside the law—not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ—that I might win those outside 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. |
I will run in the way of thy commandments when thou enlargest my understanding!
For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions which had been reached by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
But as for the Gentiles who have believed, 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 unchastity.”
All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, 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, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
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, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.