16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

For the Law inflicts punishment; but where no Law exists, there can be no violation of Law.

Any one who bids defiance to the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

It is He also who has made us competent to serve Him in connexion with a new Covenant, which is not a written code but a Spirit; for the written code inflicts death, but the Spirit gives Life.

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, namely Moses, on whom your hope rests.

"We," replied the Jews, "have a Law, and in accordance with that Law he ought to die, for having claimed to be the Son of God."

and in Him every believer is absolved from all offences, from which you could not be absolved under the Law of Moses.

Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;

and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.

For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.

Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.

Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness required by the Law shall live by that righteousness.

and the Law has nothing to do with faith. It teaches that "he who does these things shall live by doing them."

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not covet."

Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.

Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;