For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.

and everyone who believes in Him is justified from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.

know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.

You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—

He saved us—
not by works of righteousness that we had done,
but according to His mercy,
through the washing of regeneration
and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

No flesh

How can a person be justified before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?

Yahweh, if You considered sins,
Lord, who could stand?

Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

In his sight

If God puts no trust in His holy ones
and the heavens are not pure in His sight,

If even the moon does not shine
and the stars are not pure in His sight,

For by the

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

For through the law I have died to the law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ

General references

Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”

About sin, because they do not believe in Me;

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

not from works, so that no one can boast.