16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

because the law brings wrath, for where there is no law there is no transgression.

Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

who has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

and through him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

The very commandment which was to bring life I found to be death to me.

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But it was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them."

But the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, "He who does them shall live by them."

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.