Believers are not under Mosaic Law

The Law

 

Galatians 3:24 ESV / 35 helpful votes  

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

James 2:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes  

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes  

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes  

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Romans 7:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes  

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Matthew 5:17-19 ESV / 21 helpful votes  

“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 truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Romans 7:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes  

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes  

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Romans 3:20 ESV / 17 helpful votes  

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 6:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes  

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 3:31 ESV / 14 helpful votes  

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 14 helpful votes  

“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 truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 13 helpful votes  

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes  

“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.

Romans 13:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes  

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes  

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.