14 Bible Verses about Grace Verse Law
Most Relevant Verses
for then sin shall have no dominion over you: because you are not under the legal, but under the gospel dispensation.
thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.
but the divine justification certified by the law and the prophets, is now clearly proposed independently of the law:
and if it be by favour, it is not upon the account of merit. for then mercy would not be mercy.
Christ is of no use to you, whoever of you seek to be justified by the law; you have lost all interest in the gospel-dispensation.
now if the right to the inheritance be from the law, it is no longer founded upon the promise; altho' God made a donation of it to Abraham by promise.
for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence.
far from being weak in faith, unconcern'd at his own bodily decay, being then about an hundred years old, and at Sarah's incapacity of child-bearing,
whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness.
but before faith came, we were shut up together as prisoners under the custody of the law, 'till faith was to be revealed. so that the law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
the law indeed was delivered by Moses, but grace and truth was the dispensation of Jesus Christ.
the law was introduc'd, that the greatness of the fall might fully appear; but the more sin display'd its enormity, the divine favour was so much the more transcendent.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if justification be by the law, Christ died to no purpose.
