1 Corinthians 9:21 Cross References - Anderson

²¹ to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law:

¹⁷ Think not that I have come to make the law or the prophets of no effect. I have not come to make them of no effect, but to give them their full efficiency. ¹⁸ For verily I say to you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one yod or one point shall in no way pass from the law till all be fulfilled. ¹⁹ Whoever, there fore, shall make void one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I say to you, That, unless your righteousness excel that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.

²⁸ For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

⁴ And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees that had been resolved on by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem, that they might keep them.

²⁵ But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.

¹² For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned under law, shall be judged by law,

¹⁴ For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

²² For, in the inward man, I delight in the law of God:

²⁵ I thank God that I shall be delivered through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I my self, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.

⁴ that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

⁸ Owe no one any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another, has fulfilled the law. ⁹ For these commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not indulge evil desire; and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁰ Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God is our aim. ²⁰ Let every one remain in that condition in which he was, when called. ²¹ Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom. ²² For he that is in the Lord, having been called when a servant, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, also, the freeman who has been called, is Christ's servant.

³ But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. ⁴ I acted thus indeed on account of false brethren, stealthily brought in, who stole in to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

¹² For, before certain persons came from James, he ate- with the Gentiles: but, when they had come, he withdrew, and separated himself, because he feared those who were of the circumcision. ¹³ And the other Jews, also, acted hypocritically with him, so that even Barnabas was led away by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter, before them all: If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the Gen tiles to observe Jewish customs?

² This only I wish to learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

¹³ For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love. ¹⁴ For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. ² Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, ³ that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

¹ Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more. ² For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus.

² that the aged men be vigilant, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience; ³ that the aged women likewise be, in deportment, as it becomes holy women, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things, ⁴ That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ to be discreet, chaste, fond of home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not reviled. ⁶ Exhort the young men likewise to be sober-minded, ⁷ in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity, ⁸ sound speech that can not be condemned; that he that is opposed may be ashamed, seeing he has no evil thing to say of us. ⁹ Exhort servants to be subject to their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not contradicting, ¹⁰ not stealing, but showing all good faithfulness, that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in all things. ¹¹ For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared, ¹² teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age;

¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord; putting my laws into their understanding, I will also write them upon their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people;