16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law
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For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
"Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
The Jewish leaders replied, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!"
and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!
For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."
But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
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