Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do e
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him wh
Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
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
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of m
You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”
“All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.
One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you
You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’
“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’