Law And Grace

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

And certain men came down from Judæa and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin. — read the full passage →

for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

For of his fulness we all received, and grace for grace.

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

who will render to every man according to his works: — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law; — read the full passage →

And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.

Let my tongue sing of thy word; For all thy commandments are righteousness.

that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day: — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

And youdid he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, — read the full passage →

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; — read the full passage →

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. — read the full passage →

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is needful to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.