Purpose Of The Law

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.”

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

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

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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.

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.

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

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

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you 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 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.

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

We maintain 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 everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

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.

for by grace you have 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 will live by faith.”

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

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 →

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

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

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

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

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

not of works, that no one would boast.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds”, as of many, but as of one, “To your seed”, which is Christ.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, 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 unstained by the world.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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. — read the full passage →

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

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 offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

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

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

But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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.” — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not 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 those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

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

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

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! 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 exceedingly sinful.

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.” — read the full passage →

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

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

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

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;

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

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is 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 don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints, — read the full passage →

by which, when you read, you 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 you have been saved),

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

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

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. — read the full passage →

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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 →