'Under the Law' in the Bible

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from 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 says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants -- not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all