13 Bible Verses about Under The Law
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Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.
But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,
But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.
That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.
And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.
For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;
And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.
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Blood » Eating of, forbidden to » israelites » Under the law
Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.
For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
Justification before God » Under the law » Requires perfect obedience
For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:
So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.