13 Bible Verses about Under The Law

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Galatians 4:21

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

Galatians 5:3

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

Romans 2:17

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

Romans 7:1

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

Romans 3:19

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 the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Romans 4:16

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants -- not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

Galatians 3:23

Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.

Galatians 4:5

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

Romans 2:12

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.

1 Corinthians 9:20

To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.

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Leviticus 3:17

This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.'"

Leviticus 17:10

"'Any man from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,

Leviticus 17:12

Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.

Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to

Psalm 130:3

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

Job 9:2-3

"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God? If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

More verses: Romans 9:31-32

Justification before God » Under the law » Requires perfect obedience

Romans 2:13

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

Leviticus 18:5

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."

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