God's Judgment and the Law

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.

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.

Slaves to Righteousness

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

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.

To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

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.”

Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Example of Hagar and Sarah

Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

Jesus Compared to Melchizedek

Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.