Quotes about Law
The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
— Romans 5:20
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
— Romans 6:14
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!
— Romans 6:15
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?
— Romans 7:1
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.
— Romans 7:2
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, even if she marries another man.
— Romans 7:3
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.
— Romans 7:4
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.
— Romans 7:5
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.
— Romans 7:6
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.”
— Romans 7:7
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
— Romans 7:8
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
— Romans 7:9