Romans 3:31
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31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
Galatians 2:21
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21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law,(A) Christ died for nothing!”[a]
Footnotes
- Galatians 2:21 Some interpreters end the quotation after verse 14.
Matthew 5:17
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The Fulfillment of the Law
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.(A)
Romans 8:4
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4 in order that the righteous requirement(A) of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.(B)
1 Corinthians 9:21
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21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law(A) (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law),(B) so as to win those not having the law.
Romans 13:8-10
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Love Fulfills the Law
8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.(A) 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”[a](B) and whatever other command there may be, are summed up(C) in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b](D) 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.(E)
Footnotes
- Romans 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21
- Romans 13:9 Lev. 19:18
Romans 10:4
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4 Christ is the culmination of the law(A) so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.(B)
Romans 7:7-14
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The Law and Sin
7 What shall we say, then?(A) Is the law sinful? Certainly not!(B) Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.(C) For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[a](D) 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(E) produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.(F) 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life(G) actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(H) deceived me,(I) and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.(J)
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good(K) to bring about my death,(L) so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,(M) sold(N) as a slave to sin.(O)
Footnotes
- Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
Galatians 3:17-19
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17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years(A) later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise;(B) but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.
19 Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions(C) until the Seed(D) to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels(E) and entrusted to a mediator.(F)
James 2:8-12
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8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a](A) you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism,(B) you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.(C) 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles(D) at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.(E) 11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”[b](F) also said, “You shall not murder.”[c](G) If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged(H) by the law that gives freedom,(I)
Footnotes
- James 2:8 Lev. 19:18
- James 2:11 Exodus 20:14; Deut. 5:18
- James 2:11 Exodus 20:13; Deut. 5:17
Jeremiah 8:8-9
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Galatians 2:19
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Romans 7:25
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25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(A)
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(B) but in my sinful nature[a] a slave to the law of sin.(C)
Footnotes
- Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh
Romans 7:22
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Romans 4:14
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14 For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless,(A)
Romans 3:4
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Footnotes
- Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4
Matthew 15:6
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6 they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Matthew 5:20
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20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.(A)
Matthew 3:15
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15 Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
Jeremiah 31:33-34
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33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds(A)
and write it on their hearts.(B)
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.(C)
34 No longer will they teach(D) their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know(E) me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive(F) their wickedness
and will remember their sins(G) no more.”
Isaiah 42:21
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Psalm 119:126
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126 It is time for you to act, Lord;
your law is being broken.(A)
Psalm 40:8
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Hebrews 10:15-16
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15 The Holy Spirit also testifies(A) to us about this. First he says:
Footnotes
- Hebrews 10:16 Jer. 31:33
Galatians 5:18-23
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18 But if you are led by the Spirit,(A) you are not under the law.(B)
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality,(C) impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.(D) I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.(E)
22 But the fruit(F) of the Spirit is love,(G) joy, peace,(H) forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.(I) Against such things there is no law.(J)
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