Purpose of the law

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• 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.

• Galatians 3:24

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

• 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.

• James 2:10

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

• 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.

• Galatians 3:21

  Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

• James 2:12

  So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

• 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.

• Romans 6:14

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

• 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 6:15

  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

• Romans 3:28

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

• 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.

• Ephesians 2:8

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

• 1 John 3:4

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

• Galatians 3:11

  But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.