Law And Grace

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

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

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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

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

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

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

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. — read the full passage →

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →

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

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

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

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

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner 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 under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

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

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, 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 that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, — read the full passage →

For 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 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:

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 write them in their hearts: 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?

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

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

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is 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.

And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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

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

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

Who will render to every man according to his deeds: — read the full passage →

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, 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 the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

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; — read the full passage →

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

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

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

For by grace are ye 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 strength of sin is the law.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

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

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

That being justified by his grace, we should 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 an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: — read the full passage →

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

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; — read the full passage →

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

And the law is not of faith: but, The man 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 in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by 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 have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

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

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command 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 which is in heaven.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.