Lawless
Lawless
loles (, anomos): While occurring but once in the King James Version (1Ti 1:9), is translated in various ways, e.g. without law (1Co 9:21); unlawful (2Pe 2:8 the King James Version); lawless (1Ti 1:9); transgressor (Mar 15:28; Luk 22:37); wicked (Act 2:23 the King James Version; 2Th 2:8 the King James Version). When Paul claims to be without law, he has reference to those things in the ceremonial law which might well be passed over, and not to the moral law. Paul was by no means an antinomian. Those are lawless who break the law of the Decalogue; hence, those who disobey the commandment, Honor thy father and thy mother, are lawless (1Ti 1:9). The civil law is also the law of God. Those breaking it are lawless, hence, called transgressors. Those who are unjust in their dealings are also lawless; for this reason the hands of Pilate and those who with him unjustly condemned Jesus are called wicked (unlawful) hands (Act 2:23 the King James Version). The most notable example of lawlessness is the Antichrist, that wicked (lawless) one (2Th 2:8).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Lawless
The word is , and is translated ‘without law’ in 1Co 9:21; it is applied to those who, regardless of all law, do their own will. Act 2:23; 2Th 2:8; 1Ti 1:9; 2Pe 2:8. It is wrongly translated ‘transgressor’ in the A.V. of Mar 15:28 and Luk 22:37. A kindred word is translated ‘transgression of the law’ in 1Jn 3:4, which as a definition of sin is a serious error: it should be ‘sin is lawlessness,’ and this term is equally applicable to those who never had the law.