16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

Now the law worketh wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

If any one that violateth the law of Moses, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses,

Who hath also fitted us to be ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

Think not that I shall accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law He ought to die, because He made himself the Son of God.

and by Him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

And I was heretofore alive without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died:

and the commandment which was intended to life, I found to be unto death.

For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me, and by it slew me.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be shewn by the commandment to be exceeding sinful.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who doth those things shall live by them."

now the law is not of faith, but saith, "The man that doth them, shall live in them."

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions while we were under the law operated in our bodies so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."

But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead.

the sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law: