16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

Any one who despised the law of Moses died without mercy by two or three witnesses;

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses, in whom you 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 every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,

and the commandment which was for life was found to be for death.

For sin having taken occasion through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.

Did then that which is good become death to me? By no means, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.

but the law is not of faith, but he that does these things shall live by them.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.

But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.

And the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;