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NASB | John 1:17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:17 For the Law was given through Moses, but grace [the unearned, undeserved favor of God] and truth came through Jesus Christ. [Ex 20:1] |
Bible Question (short): Are Christians under the Mosaic law? |
Question (full): Dear forum readers, This should be a fairly easy question. Is the Christian still under the Mosaic Law? I am interested to see what the general consensus of this forum is. John 1:17 - For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Hebrews 7: 18,19 - The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God. Hebrews 8:13 - By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear. Hebrews 10:1 - The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. Romans 3:20 - Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. 1 Timothy 1:8,9 - We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that law is made not for the righteous... Galatians 3:19,24 - What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 2:16,21 - know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" Galatians 3:11 - Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." Romans 7:10 - I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 1 Corinthians 15:56 - The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. Romans 7:5,7a,8b - For when we were controlled by the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For apart from law, sin is dead. Galatians 3:10 - All who rely on observing 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." Romans 10:4 - Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Galatians 3:13 - 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." Romans 8:3,4 - For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Galatians 3:24,25 - So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law Romans 6:14 - For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. Romans 7:6 - But now, by dying to what once 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. Galatians 3:1-3 - You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort? Galatians 1:6-8 - I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -- which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! Galatians 5:18 - But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. Galatians 2:19 - For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. Galatians 5:1 - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Under grace, Bill Mc |