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Which law is it?
The new testament makes some statements about the old law that are
important if we are to understand the separation between the two.
The old law could not make anybody perfect/complete
Hebrews 10:1
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very
image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they
offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
The old law could not take away sin:
Hebrews 10:4
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should
take away sins.
Hebrews 10:11
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
The old law was not without fault:
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place
have been sought for the second.
The old law could not give life.
Galatians 3:21
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if
there had been a law given which could have given life, verily
righteousness should have been by the law.
The old law could not bring righteousness.
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by
the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
The old law could not justify us.
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by
the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ,
that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the
works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be
justified.
Galatians 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is
evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
The old law was a law of sin and death.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death.
The old law has been abolished.
Ephesians 2:15
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of
twain one new man, so making peace;
The old law has been taken out of the way by Jesus' cross.
Ephesians 2:15
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of
twain one new man, so making peace;
We have been delivered from the old law.
Romans 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we
were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
oldness of the letter.
Following the old law makes one a debtor to the whole law.
Galatians 5:1-3
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I
Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit
you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised,
that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for
it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things
which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Following the old law causes one to fall from grace
Galatians 5:4
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are
justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
God's new covenant is law.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their
inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their
mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God,
and they shall be to me a people:
We are now under a new law. It is called:
The Law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:21
To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law
to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that
are without law.
The law of Liberty:
James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty , and continueth
therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work,
this man shall be blessed in his deed.
The Law of the Spirit of life:
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death.
The Royal Law:
James 2:8
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
The Law of Righteousness:
Romans 9:31
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not
attained to the law of righteousness.
The Law of Faith:
Romans 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay:
but by the law of faith.
The new law is not like the old.
Hebrews 8:9
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the
day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of
Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded
them not, saith the Lord.
The new law is better.
Hebrews 8:6
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also
he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon
better promises.
Hebrews 7:22
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
The new law is everlasting.
Ezekiel 37:26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an
everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply
them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Hebrews 13:20
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant,
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