16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

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 by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.