16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.

He that by two or three witnesses was convicted of violating Moses's law, was put to death without mercy.

who also hath enabled me to be a minister of the new covenant, not of the literal sense, but of the spiritual meaning: it is the letter that denounces death, but the spirit gives life.

don't imagine that I shall accuse you to my father: even Moses himself in whom you confide, will be your accuser.

the Jews answered him, we have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he pretended to be the son of God.

by him, every one who believes, is purged from all that guilt, for which the law of Moses had made no such provision.

then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition:

and the commandment which leads to life was instrumental to my ruin.

for sin getting power by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

was it then good that brought death upon me? no, but it was sin, that sin might show it self by being able to bring death upon me by means of that which is good; that sin, I say, by the commandment might appear to be exceedingly destructive.

For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus : "the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby."

now the law does not justify by FAITH, but says, "he that DOES these things shall live by them."

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet."

but sin receiving strength by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. for before the law sin appear'd dead.

the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law.