<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when the time came for their<n id="2" /> purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary<n id="3" /> brought Jesus<n id="4" /> up to Jerusalem<n id="5" /> to present him to the Lord

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The law and the prophets were in force<n id="1" /> until John;<n id="2" /> since then,<n id="3" /> the good news of the kingdom of God<n id="4" /> has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.<n id="5" />

But if a male child<n id="1" /> is circumcised<n id="2" /> on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken,<n id="3" /> why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well<n id="4" /> on the Sabbath?

&#8220;Our law doesn&#8217;t condemn<n id="1" /> a man unless it first hears from him and learns<n id="2" /> what he is doing, does it?&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Jesus answered,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Is it not written in your law, &#8216;<b><i>I said, you are godsi>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" />

They brought forward false witnesses who said, &#8220;This man does not stop saying things against this holy place<n id="1" /> and the law.<n id="2" />

and by this one<n id="1" /> everyone who believes is justified<n id="2" /> from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify<n id="3" /> you.<n id="4" />

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees<n id="1" /> who had believed stood up and said, &#8220;It is necessary<n id="2" /> to circumcise the Gentiles<n id="3" /> and to order them to observe<n id="4" /> the law of Moses.&#8221;p>

but since it concerns points of disagreement<n id="1" /> about words and names and your own law, settle<n id="2" /> it yourselves. I will not be<n id="3" /> a judge of these things!&#8221;

Paul said in his defense,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I have committed no offense<n id="2" /> against the Jewish law<n id="3" /> or against the temple or against Caesar.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">For the promise<n id="1" /> to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died<n id="1" /> to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.<n id="2" />p>

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires.<n id="1" /> For apart from the law, sin is dead.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

For it is written in the law of Moses, &#8220;<b><i>Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the graini>b>.&#8221;<n id="1" /> God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?

It is written in the law: &#8220;<i><b>By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangersb> <b>I will speak to this peopleb>, <b>yet not even in this way will they listen to meb>i>,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the Lord.

the women<n id="1" /> should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak.<n id="2" /> Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming<n id="1" /> a curse for us (because it is written, &#8220;<b><i>Cursed is everyone who hangs on a treei>b>&#8221;)<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Why then was the law given?<n id="1" /> It was added<n id="2" /> because of transgressions,<n id="3" /> until the arrival of the descendant<n id="4" /> to whom the promise had been made. It was administered<n id="5" /> through angels by an intermediary.<n id="6" />

But when the appropriate time<n id="1" /> had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,