13 Bible Verses about Under The Law
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Tell me, those of you who want to live under the Law: Are you really listening to what the Law says?
Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised is obligated to obey the entire Law.
Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God,
But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,
Don't you realize, brothers for I am speaking to people who know the Law that the Law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive?
Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Therefore, the promise is based on faith, so that it may be a matter of grace and may be guaranteed for all of Abraham's descendants not only for those who were given the Law, but also for those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Now before faith came about, we were held in custody and confined under the Law in preparation for the faith that was to be revealed.
in order to redeem those who were under the Law, and thus to adopt them as his children.
In fact, under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of the blood there is no forgiveness.
Certainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!"
For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.
To the Jews I became like a Jew in order to win Jews. To those under the Law I became like a man under the Law, in order to win those under the Law (although I myself am not under the Law).
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Blood » Eating of, forbidden to » israelites » Under the law
"This is to be a lasting statute for all your generations, wherever you live. You are not to eat any fat or blood."
"If anyone from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you eats any form of blood, I'll oppose that person who ate the blood and eliminate him from his people,
This is why I've told the Israelis that no person among you is to eat blood. Even the resident alien who lives among you is not to eat blood.
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.
"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God? If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.
Justification before God » Under the law » Requires perfect obedience
For it is not merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified.
Keep my statutes and my ordinances, which a person is to obey in order to live in them. I am the LORD.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them."
