Purpose Of The Law

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:

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

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

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

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.

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.

So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me.

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

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

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

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

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;

not of works, that no man should glory.

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? — read the full passage →

for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

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.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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. — read the full passage →

Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith.

And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.

Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, endureth for ever; Forsake not the works of thine own hands.

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →

for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.

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

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

But the scripture shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away: — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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

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

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

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

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

Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

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: — read the full passage →

For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

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: — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

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

My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lordof glory, with respect of persons. — read the full passage →

then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

For the law having a shadow of the goodthingsto come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.

Now in the things which we are saying the chief pointis this: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, — read the full passage →

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, — read the full passage →

whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ; — read the full passage →

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, — read the full passage →

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

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto. — read the full passage →

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? — read the full passage →

I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

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 →