1 Corinthians 9:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

1 Corinthians 9:21 —

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Romans 2:12
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;
Romans 2:14
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:
Galatians 3:2
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Matthew 5:17-20
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. …
1 Corinthians 7:19-22
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. …

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. To them ... without law--that is, without revealed law: the heathen (compare Ro 2:12 with 1Co 9:15). as without law--not urging on them the ceremonies and “works of the law,” but “the hearing of faith” (Ga 3:2). Also discoursing in their own manner, as at Athens, with arguments from their own poets (Ac 17:28). being not without law to God--“While thus conforming to others in matters indifferen…