16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

for the law causeth wrath: for where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Any man who treated the law of Moses with neglect, was put to death, without mercy, on the deposition of two or three witnesses:

Who hath made us also able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Do not suppose that I shall accuse you to my Father: there is one who is accusing you, even Moses, on whom ye place your hope.

The Jews replied to him, We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he hath made himself the Son of God.

and by this man shall every one who believeth be justified from all things, from which it was not possible that he should be justified by the law of Moses.

For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

And the commandment, which [was] for life, the same was found by me for death.

For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.

Did then that which is good become fatal to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin by that which was good [in itself], was the cause of death to me; that sin through the commandment might become transcendantly sinful.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law, "That the man who doeth these things shall live by them."

Now the law is not by faith: but "The man that doeth these things shall live by them."

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

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.