purpose of the law

⁷What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You shall not covet.”

²⁴And so the law was our guardian in Christ, in order that we might be justified by faith.

¹⁷Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.

¹⁰Now whoever has observed the whole law, yet who offends in one matter, has become guilty of all.

¹⁹Why, then, was there a law? It was established because of transgressions, until the offspring would arrive, to whom he made the promise, ordained by Angels through the hand of a mediator.

²¹So then, was the law contrary to the promises of God? Let it not be so! For if a law had been given, which was able to give life, truly justice would be of the law.

¹²So speak and act just as you are beginning to be judged, by the law of liberty.

¹⁴For sin should not have dominion over you. For you are not under the law, but under grace.

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. ⁹And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.

¹⁶And we know that man is not justified by the works of the law, but only by the faith of Jesus Christ. And so we believe in Christ Jesus, in order that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law. For no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

²⁸For we judge a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.

¹⁵What is next? Should we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not be so!