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.

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.

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.

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.