16 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.

When a man disregarded the Law of Moses, he was, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity.

Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.

"But we," replied the Jews, "have a Law, under which he deserves death for making himself out to be the Son of God."

And that, in union with him, every one who believes in him is absolved from every sin from which under the Law of Moses you could not be absolved.

There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died!

The very Commandment that should have meant Life I found to result in Death!

Sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my Death.

Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve Death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved Death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my Death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the Commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is.

For Moses writes that, as for the righteousness which results from Law, 'those who practice it will find Life through it.'

But the Law is not based on faith; no, its words are--'Those who practice these precepts will find Life through them.'

When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet.

But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.

It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power.