22 Bible Verses about Law, And Gospel

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

We who are Jews by birth, and not sinful heathen, but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that the world should belong to him did not come to him or his descendants through the Law, but through the uprightness that resulted from his faith. For if it is the adherents of the Law who are to possess it, faith is nullified and the promise amounts to nothing! For the Law only brings down God's wrath; where there is no law, there is no violation of it.

Then law slipped in, and multiplied the offense. But greatly as sin multiplied, God's mercy has far surpassed it,

with the understanding that law is not intended for upright men but for the lawless and disorderly, the godless and irreligious, the irreverent and profane, men who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers, immoral people, men sexually perverted, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, or whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

Whoever commits sin disobeys law; sin is disobedience to law.

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

For we hold that a man is made upright by faith; the observance of the Law has nothing to do with it.

That no one is accepted as upright by God for obeying the Law is evident because the upright will have life because of his faith,

Then what are we to say about our ancestor Abraham? For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God, for what does the Scripture say? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness."read more.
Now paying a workman is not considered a favor, but an obligation, 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.

For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it." That no one is accepted as upright by God for obeying the Law is evident because the upright will have life because of his faith, and the Law has nothing to do with faith; it teaches that it is the man who does these things that will find life by doing them.read more.
Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree") in order that the blessing given to Abraham might through Jesus Christ reach the heathen, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

and through his human nature put an end to the feud between us, and abolished the Law with its rules and regulations, in order to make peace and create out of the two parties one new man by uniting them with himself,

For it is through the Law that I have become dead to the Law, so that I may live for God.

The command gave sin an opening and sin deceived me and killed me with it. So the Law itself is holy, and each command is holy, just, and good.

I agree that the Law is excellent??rovided it is legitimately used,

but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct, for the Scripture says, "You must be holy, Because I am holy."

Then what shall we conclude? That the Law is sin? Certainly not! Yet, if it had not been for the Law, I should never have learned what sin was; I should not have known what it was to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet." That command gave sin an opening, and it led me to all sorts of covetous ways, for sin is lifeless without law. I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died;read more.
and the command that should have meant life in my case proved to mean death. The command gave sin an opening and sin deceived me and killed me with it.

Owe nobody anything??xcept the duty of mutual love, for whoever loves his fellow-men has fully satisfied the Law. For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and any other commandments there are, are all summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself." Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right, but if you show partiality, you are committing a sin, and stand convicted before the Law as lawbreakers. For anyone who obeys the whole of the Law but makes one single slip is guilty of breaking it all.read more.
For he who said, "You must not commit adultery," said also, "You must not commit murder." Now if you abstain from adultery, but commit murder, you are still a violator of the Law.

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature, so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another. For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself." But if you bite one another and eat one another, take care, or you will be destroyed by one another.read more.
I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings. For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please. But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not subject to law.