To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

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

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations,

Your justice endures, and your law is reliable.

I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

Then I will keep your law continually now and for all time.

Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”