16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

For the Law is the cause of wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

He that hath set at nought the law of Moses dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses;

who also gave us ability to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye have placed your hope.

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to the 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, apart from the Law, was once alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life again, and I died;

and the very commandment whose design was life, I found to issue in death.

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

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! but sin; that it might become manifest as sin, causing death to me by means of that which is good; that sin by means of the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the Law: "The man that hath done these things shall live by them."

And the Law hath nothing to do with faith; but [its language is], "He that hath done them shall live in them."

For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

But sin, seizing the opportunity, wrought in me by means of the commandment all manner of sinful desire; for without the Law sin is dead.

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