16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

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

and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.

But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them."

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.