Quotes About Spirituality

and the way of peace they have not known.”

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

Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abrahamís offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. 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 and I died.

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

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

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to Godís law, nor can it do so.

So it is not the children of the flesh who are Godís children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

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