Because the law causeth wrath. For where no law is, there is no transgression.

He that despiseth Moses' law, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses.

which hath made us able to minister the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Do not think that I will accuse you to my father. There is one that accuseth you, even Moses in whom ye trust.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die: because he made himself the son of God."

And that by him are all that believe justified from all things, from the which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

I once lived without law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I was dead.

And the very same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me an occasion of death.

For sin took occasion by the means of the commandment and so deceived me, and by the selfsame commandment, slew me.

Was that, then, which is good made death unto me? God forbid. Nay, sin was death unto me, that it might appear: how that sin by the means of that which is good, had wrought death in me: that sin which is under the commandment, might be out of measure sinful.

Moses describeth the righteousness which cometh of the law, how that the man which doth the things of the law shall live therein.

The law is not of faith: but the man that fulfilleth the things contained in the law, shall live in them.

For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid: but I knew not what sin meant but by the law. For I had not known what lust had meant, except the law had said, "Thou shalt not lust."

But sin took an occasion by the means of the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For verily, without the law sin was dead.

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