and led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest that year;

a father against a son, and a son against a father; a mother against the daughter, and a daughter against the mother; a mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a bride against her mother-in-law;

then he shall not honor his father or his mother; and you have made the law of God of no effect by your tradition.

Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all,

to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law;

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,

to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law;

Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by faith and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really have been by the law;