Law And Grace

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

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

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

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

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

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has 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 everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

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

If you love me, 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 in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

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

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are 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 prepared before that we would walk in them.

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

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

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. 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 to 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 everyone who hangs on a tree,”

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

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

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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

The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded 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 to 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, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. — read the full passage →

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

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

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

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, 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 has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. — read the full passage →

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

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

for by grace you have 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 don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

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

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

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

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who 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 you 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? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. — read the full passage →

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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