'Law' in the Bible

All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the full expression of knowledge and truth in the law—

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed—attested by the Law and the Prophets

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made empty and the promise is canceled.

For the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.

So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.

But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.

But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.