16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

For law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Any one who set at naught the law of Moses was put to death without pity, on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be God's Son,"

"and that by him every one that believes is justified from all things from which you could never be justified by the law of Moses.

Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

and the very commandment which should have meant life, this I found to mean death.

For sin, when it had gained a vantage-ground through the commandment, beguiled me, and through it slew me.

Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment.

For Moses writes concerning the righteousness of the Law, saying, The man that doeth it shall live by it.

and the Law has nothing to do with faith, but declares, The man that has done these things shall live therein.

For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust.

But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead.

Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law.