Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge [of the law].

And [when] they heard [this], they began to glorify God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many ten thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous adherents of the law.

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?

To those outside the law [I became] as outside the law ([although I] am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

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 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,

I have become like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I may gain the Jews. To those under the law [I became] as under the law ([although I] myself am not under the law) in order that I may gain those under 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 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.

but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law {no human being will be justified}.

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone's brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.

How are you able to say to your brother, "Brother, allow [me] to remove the speck [that is] in your eye," [while] you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your [own] eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your [own] eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck [that is] in your brother's eye!

saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us if someone's brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.

So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent [word] to them, saying, "Men [and] brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you for the people, say [it]."

"Therefore let it be known to you, men [and] brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and from all [the things] from which you were not able to be justified by the law of Moses,

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.

And indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a commandment to collect a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, although {they are descended from Abraham}.

For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

The Jews replied to him, "We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!"

Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, [you] whitewashed wall! And are you sitting [there] judging me according to the law, and acting contrary to the law do you order me to be struck?"

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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].

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.

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

For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who does not abide by all [the things] that are written in the book of the law to do them."

Tell me, [you] who are wanting to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

For the law appoints men [as] high priests who have weakness, but the statement of the oath, after the law, [appoints] a Son, who is made perfect {forever}.