16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Anyone, having set aside Moses' law, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses;

Who also qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, Moses on whom ye have set your hope.

The Jews, therefore, answered him, "We have a law, and according to the law He ought to die, because He made Himself God's Son."

and in Him every one who believes is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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

And the commandment which was unto life was itself found by me to be unto death;

for sin, taking occasion through the commandment, thoroughly deceived me, and through it slew me.

Did, then, that which is good become death to me? It could not be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

For Moses writes that the man who did the righteousness of the law shall live thereby;

Now the law is not of faith; but "He who did them shall live in them."

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

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

but sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead.

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: