16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:

who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; --that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: