For I came to turn

a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

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

To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.

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

So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law—though I myself am not under the law—to win those under the law.

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might 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.

Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed—attested by the Law and the Prophets

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.

Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

For the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.

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

But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

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

A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! You are sitting there judging me according to the law, and in violation of the law are you ordering me to be struck?”