13 Bible Verses about Grace Verse Law
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So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God. For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.
But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.
But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.
You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.
If our inheritance rests on the Law, it has nothing to do with the promise. Yet it was as a promise that God bestowed it upon Abraham.
(for there was nothing final about the Law), and a better hope begins to dawn, through which we may approach God.
His faith did not weaken, although he realized that his own body was worn out, for he was about a hundred years old, and that Sarah was past bearing children.
but a man who has no work to offer, but has faith in him who can make the ungodly upright, has his faith credited to him as uprightness.
But before this faith came, we were kept shut up under the Law, in order to obtain the faith that was to be revealed. So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.
Then law slipped in, and multiplied the offense. But greatly as sin multiplied, God's mercy has far surpassed it,
I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!
