21To 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.
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For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. …
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-23)The apostle takes occasion from what he had before discoursed to mention some other instances of his self-denial and parting with his liberty for the benefit of others. I. He asserts his liberty (1 Cor. 9:19): Though I be free from all men . He was free-born, a citizen of Rome. He was in bondage to none, nor depended upon any for his subsistence; yet he made himself a servant to all, that he might…
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