Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God

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

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

So also David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:

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.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.