Quotes About Law

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.

I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?

All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.

Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.

So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.