The Law
9 passages
- Galatians 3:24
So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Read it in context - James 2:10
Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
Read it in context - Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
Read it in context - 1 John 3:4
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
Read it in context - Romans 7:7
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
Read it in context - Romans 3:20
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Read it in context - Matthew 5:17–19
17Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. 18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Read it in context - Galatians 2:16
know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Read it in context - Romans 7:12
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
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