Bible Verses about “purpose of the law”

“for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,”

“not of works, that no one would boast.”

“For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.”

“"Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

“For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.”

“So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.”

“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."”

“yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.”

“What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!”

“We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.”

“So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”

“What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.”

“Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.”