16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.

Anyone who breaks the law of Moses pays the death penalty without any show of pity, on the evidence of two or three witnesses only.

He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes!

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and in accordance with that law He deserves to die, for claiming to be God's Son."

and that through union with Him every one of you who believes is given right standing with God and freed from every charge from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

I was once alive when I had no connection with the law, but when the command came, sin revived, and then I died;

and so, in my case, the command which should have meant life turned out to mean death.

For sin found its rallying point in that command and through it deceived me and killed me.

Did that which is good, then, result in death to me? Of course not! It was sin that did it, so that it might show itself as sin, for by means of that good thing it brought about my death, so that through the command sin might appear surpassingly sinful.

For Moses says of the law-way to right standing with God that whoever can perform the law will live by it.

and the law has nothing to do with faith, but it says, "It is the man who does these things that will live by doing them."

For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.

What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."

Sin found its rallying point in that command and stirred within me every sort of evil desire, for without law, sin is lifeless.

Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.