Quotes About Law

but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Because they were ignorant of Godís righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to Godís righteousness.

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

For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.

Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!

Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping Godís commandments is what counts.

Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesnít the Law say the same thing?

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.

To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

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

Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”

know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!