Law and grace

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• Romans 6:14

  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

• Romans 10:4

  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

• Romans 7:7

  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

• Romans 3:31

  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

• John 1:17

  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

• Romans 7:6

  But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

• Romans 7:12

  Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

• Galatians 5:18

  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

• Ephesians 2:8

  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

• James 2:10

  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

• Galatians 3:10

  For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

• Romans 7:4

  Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

• Romans 3:19

  Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

• 1 John 5:3

  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

• John 14:15

  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

• Romans 6:23

  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

• Galatians 2:16

  Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

• Romans 3:20

  Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

• Romans 8:1–39

  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: …

• 1 John 3:4

  Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

• Ephesians 2:8–9

  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

• Matthew 5:17

  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

• Romans 8:4

  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

• Romans 3:28

  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

• Galatians 5:4

  Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

• John 1:14

  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

• Romans 11:6

  And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

• Hebrews 4:16

  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

• Acts 15:1–41

  And certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. …

• Romans 7:22

  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

• Galatians 3:23

  But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

• Matthew 5:18

  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

• Romans 3:23

  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

• Ephesians 2:10

  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

• Galatians 3:24

  Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

• Romans 7:9

  For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

• Acts 5:32

  And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

• James 4:6

  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

• Galatians 3:19

  Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

• Colossians 2:14

  Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;