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Apr 4, 2024 · This does not mean that Christians are to be lawless, as some advocate today—a teaching called antinomianism. Rather, it means that we are free from the Mosaic Law and instead under the law of Christ, which is to love God with all of our being and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.
May 1, 2024 · Answer. In 1 Corinthians 9:20, Paul writes, “To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.” We must treat every passage of Scripture like a lake in the mountains.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Ye are not under the law - You are under a different dispensation - the dispensation of the Spirit. You are free from the restraints and control of the Mosaic law, and are under the control of the Spirit of God.
Paul asks a strange question in light of what he just wrote in the previous verses. He has said that sin has no dominion or authority over us because we are not under the law but under God's grace through faith in Christ. Now he asks if we should sin, or choose to continue to sin, for that reason?
Sinners without the law of Moses to follow—the Gentiles—will die and be judged by God without the law, because their sin is still sin. Sinners under the law—Jewish people who adhere to the rituals and sacraments of the law of Moses—will be judged by God according the law of Moses when they die.
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What does “under law” mean in the Bible?
The apostle Paul uses the phase “under law” or “under the law” several times in the New Testament, (three times in Romans, twice in 1 Corinthians, and four times in Galatians). He uses the phase “under grace” only twice in the whole of the New Testament (Romans 6:14-15).
