But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? ¹  Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. ² 

Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps ¹  the law! Why do you want ²  to kill me?”

The Jewish leaders ¹  replied, ²  “We have a law, ³  and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!” ⁴ 

For circumcision ¹  has its value if you practice the law, but ²  if you break the law, ³  your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters ¹  (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person ²  as long as he lives?

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her ¹  husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. ² 

For the law of the life-giving Spirit ¹  in Christ Jesus has set you ²  free from the law of sin and death.

For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, ¹  but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John appeared. ¹ 

All the law and the prophets depend ¹  on these two commandments.”

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you understand it?” ¹ 

But this rabble ¹  who do not know the law are accursed!”

You ¹  received the law by decrees given by angels, ²  but you did not obey ³  it.” ⁴ 

saying, “This man is persuading ¹  people to worship God in a way contrary to ²  the law!”

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law ¹  and boast of your relationship to God ² 

and know his will ¹  and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law, ² 

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified. ¹ 

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!