Purpose Of The Law

What, then, shall we say? the law <FI>is<Fi> sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

so that the law became our child-conductor--to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator--

the law, then, <FI>is<Fi> against the promises of God? --let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law--to do them,'

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

and he said to them, `These <FI>are<Fi> the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

so that the law, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,

not of works, that no one may boast;

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? — read the full passage →

for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither <FI>is<Fi> transgression.

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness <FI>be<Fi> through law--then Christ died in vain.

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh? — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass. — read the full passage →

Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

And he hath strengthened a covenant with many--one week, and <FI>in<Fi> the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.'

Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness <FI>is<Fi> to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!

The law of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> stedfast, Making wise the simple,

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, — read the full passage →

and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

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

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

so that the law became our child-conductor--to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous, — read the full passage →

but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law--to do them,' — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face--which was being made useless, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

What, then, shall we say? the law <FI>is<Fi> sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: — read the full passage →

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God; — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that <FI>for<Fi> which I sent it.

Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all; — read the full passage →

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

then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things--not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him--to salvation!

And the sum concerning the things spoken of <FI>is<Fi> : we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens, — read the full passage →

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints, — read the full passage →

in regard to which ye are able, reading <FI>it<Fi> , to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ, — read the full passage →

even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly, — read the full passage →

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

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

Brethren, as a man I say <FI>it<Fi> , even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to, — read the full passage →

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? — read the full passage →

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →