John 7:19
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19 “Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?”(A)
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John 1:17
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17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.(A)
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John 11:53
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53 So from that day on they planned to put him to death.(A)
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John 7:1
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The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers
7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.(A)
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Matthew 12:14
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14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.(A)
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Galatians 6:13
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13 Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.
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Deuteronomy 33:4
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4 Moses charged us with the law
as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.(A)
Deuteronomy 1:17
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17 You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’(A)
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Exodus 24:2-3
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2 Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”
3 Moses went and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances, and all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.”(A)
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Hebrews 3:3-5
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3 Yet Jesus[a] is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.(A) 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)(B) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s[b] house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later.(C)
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Galatians 3:19
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The Purpose of the Law
19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring[a] would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.(A)
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Romans 3:10-23
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10 as it is written:
“There is no one who is righteous, not even one;(A)
11 there is no one who has understanding;
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
there is no one who shows kindness;
there is not even one.”
13 “Their throats are opened graves;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of vipers is under their lips.”(B)
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;(C)
16 ruin and misery are in their paths,
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.(D) 20 For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.(E)
Righteousness through Faith
21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets,(F) 22 the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ[a] for all who believe.[b] For there is no distinction,(G) 23 since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;(H)
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Romans 2:17-29
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The Jews and the Law
17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God(A) 18 and know his will and determine what really matters because you are instructed in the law, 19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,(B) 21 you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(C) 22 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by your transgression of the law? 24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed[a] among the gentiles because of you.”(D)
25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law your circumcision has become uncircumcision.(E) 26 So, if the uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 Then the physically uncircumcised person who keeps the law will judge you who, though having the written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law. 28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something external and physical.(F) 29 Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not the written code. Such a person receives praise not from humans but from God.(G)
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