Romans 5:20
Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving-kindness of God was lavished the more,
Romans 6:1
What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied?
Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this means--'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast."
Luke 7:47
And for this, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, have been pardoned, because she has loved greatly; but one who has little pardoned him, loves but little."
Luke 23:39-43
One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us," he said.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in greater fullness.
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and the whole world become liable to the judgment of God.
Romans 4:15
Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.
Romans 6:14
For Sin shall not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of Love.
Romans 7:5-13
When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,
2 Corinthians 3:7-9
If the system of religion which involved Death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,
Galatians 3:19-25
What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make men conscious of their wrong-doings, and intended to last only till the coming of that 'offspring' to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.
Ephesians 1:6-8
And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;
Ephesians 2:1-5
You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.
1 Timothy 1:13-16
though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;
Titus 3:3-7
There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.