13 Bible Verses about Under The Law
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Tell me, you who want to be subject to law, will you not listen to what the law says?
I again insist that if any man lets himself be circumcised, he is under obligation to obey the whole law.
but when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law,
Do you not know, brothers -- for I speak to those who are acquainted with the law -- that the law can press its claim over a man only so long as he lives?
Now we know that everything the law says is spoken to those who are under its authority, that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be held responsible to God.
So it is conditioned on faith, that it might be in accordance with God's unmerited favor, so that the promise might be in force for all the descendants of Abraham, not only for those who belong to the law party but also for those who belong to the faith group of Abraham. He is the father of us all,
But before this faith came, we were kept locked up under the law, in preparation for the faith which was to be unveiled.
to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might be adopted as sons.
In fact, under the law, almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood no forgiveness is granted.
For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
All who sin without having the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews; to men under the law, like one under the law, though I am not under the law myself, to win the men under the law;
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Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.
Justification before God » Under the law » Requires perfect obedience
For merely hearing the law read does not make men upright with God, but men who practice the law will be recognized as upright.
For Moses says of the law-way to right standing with God that whoever can perform the law will live by it.
For whoever obeys the whole law, except to slip in a single instance, is guilty of breaking it all.