And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. ¹ 

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. ¹ 

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Thus the law had become our guardian ¹  until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous ²  by faith.

But when the appropriate time ¹  had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights. ¹ 

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, ¹  namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” ² 

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, ¹  quarrels, and fights about the law, ²  because they are useless and empty.

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators. ¹ 

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails ¹  in one point has become guilty of all of it. ² 

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I ¹  would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else ²  if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” ³ 

yet we know ¹  that no one ²  is justified by the works of the law ³  but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. ⁴  And ⁵  we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ ⁶  and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one ⁷  will be justified.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, ¹  he asked them where the Christ ²  was to be born.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. ¹ 

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law ¹  and the Pharisees, ²  you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.