Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law.
For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.
The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and
He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he re
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared r
At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of
What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads o
The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you
Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, the
For it is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,
Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone r
The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkne
So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from de
“Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”
And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of ev
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.