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

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.

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

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

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

and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth --

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

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.

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed --

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about -- but not before God.

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

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

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

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

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

For sin will have no mastery 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? Absolutely not!

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?

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 the marriage.

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

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

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

For we know that the law is spiritual -- but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

But if I do what I don't want, I agree that the law is good.

So, I find the 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 a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

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

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

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

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

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

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

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

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

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.