{Do} not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish [them], but to fulfill [them].

For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

In everything then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is [the essence of] the Law and the Prophets.

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

“Teacher, which commandment [is the] greatest in the Law?

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier [matters] of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, [His parents] brought Him to Jerusalem to present [Him] to the Lord

(as it is written in [the] Law of [the] Lord “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”

and to offer [the] sacrifice specified in the Law of [the] Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

[Led by] the Spirit, he went into the temple [courts]. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for Him what was customary under the Law,

When [Jesus’ parents] had done everything required by the Law of [the] Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their [own] town of Nazareth.

“What is written in the Law? [Jesus] replied “How do you read [it]?

The Law and the Prophets [were proclaimed] until John. Since that time, the {gospel} of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

[Jesus] said to them, “These [are] the words I spoke to you while I was still with you Everything must be fulfilled that [is] written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and [the] Psalms.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the [One] Moses wrote about in the Law, [ the One] the prophets [foretold] — Jesus of Nazareth, [the] son of Joseph.

{Has} not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps [it]. Why are you trying to kill Me?

If a boy can be circumcised on [the] Sabbath so that the law of Moses {will} not be broken, [why] are you angry with Me for making [the] whole man well on the Sabbath?

But this crowd that does not know the law— they are under a curse.

“{Does} our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?

In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such [a woman]. So what do You say?

Even in your [own] Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.

Jesus replied “Is it not written in your Law ‘I have said you are gods’

The crowd replied “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. [So] how {can} You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?

But [this is] to fulfill [what] is written in their Law ‘They hated Me without reason.’

“You take Him and judge Him by your [own] law, Pilate told them. We are not permitted to execute anyone the Jews replied

“We have a law, answered the Jews, “and according to [that] law He must die, because He declared Himself {to be} [the] Son of God.

[where] they presented false witnesses [who] said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and [against] the law.

[you] who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept [it].

After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them “Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak.

Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by [the] law of Moses.

But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up [and] declared “[The Gentiles] must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.

“This [man] is persuading the [people] to worship God in ways contrary to the law, they said

But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle [it] yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.

When they heard [this], they glorified God. Then they said to [Paul], “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.

Take these [men], purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so {they can have} [their] heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth [to these] rumors about you, but [that] you also live in obedience to the law.

crying out, “Men [of] Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against [our] people and [against our] law and [against] this place. Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.

“I am a Jew born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I was {just as} zealous for God as any of you are today.

[There] a man [named] Ananias, a devout observer of the law [who was] highly regarded by all the Jews living there,

Then Paul said to him, “God will strike [you], you whitewashed wall! You sit [here] to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.

I found that the accusation involved questions [about] their [own] law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.

I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

[Then] Paul made his defense “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews [or] against the temple [or] against Caesar.

So they set a day to [meet with Paul], [and] many [people] came to [the place] he was staying. He expounded to [them] from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under [the] law will be judged by [the] law.

For [it is] not the hearers of [the] law [who are] righteous before God, but [it is] the doers of [the] law [who] will be declared righteous.

Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have [the] law, do by nature what the law [requires], they are a law to themselves, [even though] they do not have [the] law.

[So] they show [that] the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, [and] their thoughts either accusing or defending [them]

Now you, if you call [yourself] a Jew; [if you] rely on [the] law and boast in God;

[if you] know [His] will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

an instructor of [the] foolish, a teacher of infants, [because] you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth —

You who boast in [the] law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Circumcision has value if you observe [the] law, but if you break [the] law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, {will} not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

The [one who is] physically uncircumcised [yet] keeps the law will condemn you who, [even though you have] [the] written code and circumcision, [are] a lawbreaker

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For [the] law merely brings awareness of sin.

But now, apart from [the] law, [the] righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

Where, then, [is] boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? [On] that of works? No, but on [that] of faith.

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.

For the promise to Abraham [and] his offspring that he would be heir [of the] world was not [given] through [the] law, but through [the] righteousness that comes by faith.

For if those [who live by] [the] law [are] heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, [there is] no transgression.

Therefore, [the promise comes] by faith, so that [it] may rest on grace [and] may be guaranteed to all [Abraham’s] 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 sin was in [the] world before [the] law [was given]; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

[The] law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

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?

For instance a married woman is bound by law to [her] husband as long as he lives. But if [her] husband dies, she is released from the law of [marriage].

So then, if she is [joined] to another man [while her] husband is [still] alive, she is called an adulteress; but if [her] husband dies, she is free from that law [and] is not an adulteress [if she marries] another man.

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.

For when we [lived] according to the flesh, the sinful passions [aroused] by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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 then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy, righteous, and good.

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

And if I do what I do not want [to do], I admit that the law [is] good.

So [this is] the principle I have discovered When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

For in [my] inner being I delight in God’s law.

But I see another law [ at work ] in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within [me].

Thanks [be] to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with [my] mind I serve [the] law of God, but [with my] flesh [I serve the] law of sin.

For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life {set} you free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God [did] by sending His [own] Son in [the] likeness of sinful man, [ as an offering ] for sin. He [thus] condemned sin in the flesh,

so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who {do} not walk according to [the] flesh but according to [the] Spirit.

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

but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained [it].

For Christ [is] [the] end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

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

Be indebted to no one except to one another [in] love. For he who loves [his] neighbor has fulfilled [the] law.

Love does no wrong to [its] neighbor. Therefore love [is] [the] fulfillment of [the] law.

Do I say this from a human perspective Doesn’t [the] Law say the same thing?

For it is written in the Law of Moses: Do not muzzle an ox [while it is] treading out the grain.” [Is it] about oxen [that] God is concerned?

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win [the] Jews. To those under [the] law [I became like one] under [the] law ([though I] myself am not under [the] law), to win those under [the] law.

It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, [but] even then they will {not} listen to Me, says [the] Lord.”

Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

The sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin [is] the law.

know that a man is not justified by works of [the] law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

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, then 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.”

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.

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.

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

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.

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

But if you are led by [the] Spirit, you are not under [the] law.

gentleness, [and] self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

For the circumcised {do} not even keep [the] law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments [and] decrees. [ He did this ] to create in Himself one new man [out of] the two, [thus] making peace

circumcised on [the] eighth day, of [the] people of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee;

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in [the] law, faultless.

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from [the] law, but that which [is] through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

Now we know that the law [is] good, if one uses it legitimately.

We realize that law is not enacted for [the] righteous, but for [the] lawless and rebellious, for [the] ungodly and sinful, for [the] unholy and profane, for killers of father [or] mother, for murderers,

Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people — that is, from their brothers — though they [too] are descended from Abraham.

For [when] the priesthood is changed, [the] law must be changed as well.

one who has become [a priest] not by a law of succession but by [the] power of an indestructible life.

( for the law made nothing perfect and a better hope [is] introduced, by which we draw near to God.

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which [came] after the law, [appointed] [the] Son, who has been made perfect forever.

Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already [priests] who offer gifts according to [the] law.

For this [is] the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares [the] Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

For [when] Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, [and] sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near [ to worship ].

[ In the passage ] above He says “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin [offerings] You did not desire, nor did You delight in [them]” ([although] they are offered according to [the] law).

“This [is] the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares [the] Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

Anyone who rejected [the] law of Moses died without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

But the [one who] looks intently into [the] perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — [he] will be blessed in what he does.

If you really fulfill [the] royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

But if you show favoritism, you sin [and] are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one [point] is guilty of [breaking] all of it.

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by [the] law that gives freedom.

Brothers, {do} not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against [his] brother or judges [him] speaks against [the] law and judges [it]. And if you judge [the] law, you are not a practitioner of [the] law, but a judge [of it].