who exchanged the truth of God with a lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed for eternity. Amen.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as 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 will be declared righteous.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, [although they] do not have the law, are a law to themselves,

who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts [one] after another accusing or even defending them

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

and know his will and approve the things that are superior, [because you] are instructed by the law,

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

Who boast in the law, by the transgression of the law you dishonor God!

For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Therefore, if the uncircumcised person follows the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be credited for circumcision?

And the uncircumcised person by nature who carries out the law will judge you who, [though provided] with {the precise written code} and circumcision [are] a transgressor of the law.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified about by the law and the prophets--

Therefore, where [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

For we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, [that] he would be heir of the world, [was] not through the law, but through the righteousness by faith.

For if those of the law [are] heirs, faith is rendered void and the promise is nullified.

For the law produces wrath, but where [there] is no law, neither [is there] transgression.

Because of this, [it is] by faith, in order that [it may be] according to grace, so that the promise may be secure to all the descendants, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one's account [when there] is no law.

Now the law came in as a side issue, in order that the trespass could increase, but where sin increased, grace was present in greater abundance,

For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is master of a person for as long a time [as] he lives?

For the married woman is bound by law to [her] husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man [while] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress [if she] belongs to another man.

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

But now we have been released from the law, [because we] have died [to that] by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter [of the law].

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all [kinds of] covetousness. For apart from the law, sin [is] dead.

And I was alive once, apart from the law, but [when] the commandment came, sin sprang to life

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, {sold into slavery to sin}.

But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.

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

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

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

because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],

who are Israelites, [to] whom [belong] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the [temple] service, and the promises,

But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.

For Christ [is the] end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness [that is] from the law: "The person who does [this] will live by it."

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love [is the] fulfillment of the law.