because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

When Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing them

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

and know his will and approve of what is excellent, because you are instructed in the law,

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a breaker of the law.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

But now the righteousness of God has been revealed apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it,

Where then is our boasting? It is excluded. On what law? On the law of works? No, but on the law of faith.

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

Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that he would be heir of the world, was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For if those who are of the law are to be the heirs, faith has no value and the promise is void,

because the law brings wrath, for where there is no law there is no transgression.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all his descendantsnot only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all

(For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted when there is no law.

Law came in, that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

For sin shall not have dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

Do you not know, brethrenfor I am speaking to those who know the lawthat the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of her husband.

So then, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and though she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God.

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

But now, by dying to what once held us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

Thanks be to Godthrough Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weakened through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin: he condemned sin in the flesh,

in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so;

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

but Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, has not attained that law.

as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, and a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

For Christ is the end of the law, that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them."

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.