14 Bible Verses about Grace Verse Law
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It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God. For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;
But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,
Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.
You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,
If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.
(for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.
His faith never quailed, even when he noted the utter impotence of his own body (for he was about a hundred years old) or the impotence of Sara's womb;
but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness.
Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed; the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.
I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.