13 Bible Verses about Under The Law
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Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
Or do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to those who know the law--that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring--not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.
to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."
For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
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Blood » Eating of, forbidden to » israelites » Under the law
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."
"If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God? If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
Justification before God » Under the law » Requires perfect obedience
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
