逐节对照
- Amplified Bible - Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.
- 新标点和合本 - 这样说来,律法是为什么有的呢?原是为过犯添上的,等候那蒙应许的子孙来到,并且是藉天使经中保之手设立的。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 这样说来,为什么要有律法呢?律法是为过犯的缘故而加上去的,等候那蒙应许的子孙来到才结束,是藉着天使经中保之手而设立的。
- 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 这样说来,为什么要有律法呢?律法是为过犯的缘故而加上去的,等候那蒙应许的子孙来到才结束,是藉着天使经中保之手而设立的。
- 当代译本 - 那么,为什么会有律法呢?律法是为了使人知罪而增设的,一直存到那位承受应许的后裔来临。律法是通过天使交给一位中保颁布的。
- 圣经新译本 - 那么,为什么要有律法呢?是为了过犯的缘故才加上的,直到那得应许的后裔来到。律法是藉着天使经中保的手设立的;
- 中文标准译本 - 那么,为什么要有律法呢?律法是为了过犯的缘故被加上的,直到那蒙应许的后裔 来临;律法是藉着天使,通过中保的手所规定的。
- 现代标点和合本 - 这样说来,律法是为什么有的呢?原是为过犯添上的,等候那蒙应许的子孙来到;并且是藉天使、经中保之手设立的。
- 和合本(拼音版) - 这样说来,律法是为什么有的呢?原是为过犯添上的,等候那蒙应许的子孙来到,并且是藉天使经中保之手设立的。
- New International Version - Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator.
- New International Reader's Version - Then why was the law given at all? It was added because of human sin. And it was supposed to control us until the promised Seed had come. The law was given through angels, and a go-between was put in charge of it.
- English Standard Version - Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
- New Living Translation - Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.
- Christian Standard Bible - Why, then, was the law given? It was added for the sake of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.
- New American Standard Bible - Why the Law then? It was added on account of the violations, having been ordered through angels at the hand of a mediator, until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.
- New King James Version - What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
- American Standard Version - What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
- King James Version - Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
- New English Translation - Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.
- World English Bible - Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
- 新標點和合本 - 這樣說來,律法是為甚麼有的呢?原是為過犯添上的,等候那蒙應許的子孫來到,並且是藉天使經中保之手設立的。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 這樣說來,為甚麼要有律法呢?律法是為過犯的緣故而加上去的,等候那蒙應許的子孫來到才結束,是藉着天使經中保之手而設立的。
- 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 這樣說來,為甚麼要有律法呢?律法是為過犯的緣故而加上去的,等候那蒙應許的子孫來到才結束,是藉着天使經中保之手而設立的。
- 當代譯本 - 那麼,為什麼會有律法呢?律法是為了使人知罪而增設的,一直存到那位承受應許的後裔來臨。律法是通過天使交給一位中保頒佈的。
- 聖經新譯本 - 那麼,為甚麼要有律法呢?是為了過犯的緣故才加上的,直到那得應許的後裔來到。律法是藉著天使經中保的手設立的;
- 呂振中譯本 - 那麼、律法怎麼樣呢? 律法 是為 顯明 犯法之事而增設的; 是臨時的措施 、等所應許的後裔來到的;是藉着天使經中間人之手規定的。
- 中文標準譯本 - 那麼,為什麼要有律法呢?律法是為了過犯的緣故被加上的,直到那蒙應許的後裔 來臨;律法是藉著天使,通過中保的手所規定的。
- 現代標點和合本 - 這樣說來,律法是為什麼有的呢?原是為過犯添上的,等候那蒙應許的子孫來到;並且是藉天使、經中保之手設立的。
- 文理和合譯本 - 然則律何為耶、乃為罪而設、待受許之裔至、又由天使於中保之手而訂、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 然則律法何以、曰、律法為有罪者設、待所應許之裔至、且律法藉天使賜中保以傳、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 然則律法何益、曰、為罪愆而設、待受應許之裔至焉、且律法傳授、藉天使、託中保之手、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 然則律法何為而作乎?蓋人多為非作惡、乃有律法之添設、以俟承受嗣業者之來臨。且律法之制、乃由主之使者授之於居間人之手。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Entonces, ¿cuál era el propósito de la ley? Fue añadida por causa de las transgresiones hasta que viniera la descendencia a la cual se hizo la promesa. La ley se promulgó por medio de ángeles, por conducto de un mediador.
- 현대인의 성경 - 그렇다면 율법을 주신 목적은 무엇이었습니까? 그것은 약속된 분이 오실 때까지 죄가 무엇인지를 깨닫게 하기 위한 것입니다. 그 율법은 천사들이 전해 준 것을 사람이 받아 공포한 것입니다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - В чем же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был добавлен позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришел Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
- Восточный перевод - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - В чём же тогда назначение Закона? Закон был дан позже из-за людских грехов и действовал до тех пор, пока не пришёл Потомок, к Которому относится обещание. Закон был дан через ангелов, рукой посредника.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais alors, pourquoi la Loi ? Elle a été ajoutée pour mettre en évidence la désobéissance des hommes à l’ordre divin, et le régime qu’elle a instauré devait rester en vigueur jusqu’à la venue de la descendance d’Abraham que la promesse concernait. Cette Loi a été promulguée par l’intermédiaire d’anges et par le moyen d’un médiateur, Moïse.
- リビングバイブル - では、そもそも律法は何のために与えられたのでしょうか。それは、神の約束につけ加えられたものであり、それに違反することがどんなに罪深いことかを人々に示すためです。ただし、この律法の有効期間は、その約束の指し示す「子」、すなわち、キリストが来られる時まででした。さらに次のような点も指摘できます。神様は律法を、天使たちを通してモーセにお与えになり、モーセがそれを民に告げ知らせたのです。
- Nestle Aland 28 - Τί οὖν ὁ νόμος; τῶν παραβάσεων χάριν προσετέθη, ἄχρις οὗ ἔλθῃ τὸ σπέρμα ᾧ ἐπήγγελται, διαταγεὶς δι’ ἀγγέλων ἐν χειρὶ μεσίτου.
- unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τί οὖν ὁ νόμος? τῶν παραβάσεων χάριν προσετέθη, ἄχρις οὗ ἔλθῃ τὸ σπέρμα ᾧ ἐπήγγελται, διαταγεὶς δι’ ἀγγέλων ἐν χειρὶ μεσίτου.
- Nova Versão Internacional - Qual era então o propósito da Lei? Foi acrescentada por causa das transgressões, até que viesse o Descendente a quem se referia a promessa, e foi promulgada por meio de anjos, pela mão de um mediador.
- Hoffnung für alle - Was aber soll dann überhaupt das Gesetz? Gott hat es zusätzlich gegeben, damit wir das Ausmaß unserer Sünden erkennen. Dieses Gesetz – von den Engeln durch den Vermittler Mose zu uns gebracht – sollte auch nur so lange gelten, bis der Nachkomme von Abraham da wäre, an dem Gott sein Versprechen erfüllen wollte.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Như thế, luật pháp có nhiệm vụ gì? Luật pháp được công bố để giúp loài người nhận biết tội lỗi mình, cho đến khi Chúa Cứu Thế xuất hiện, tức Đấng đã hứa từ trước. Đức Chúa Trời ban hành luật pháp qua các thiên sứ cho Môi-se, là người trung gian giữa Đức Chúa Trời và con người.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ถ้าเช่นนั้นบทบัญญัติมีไว้เพื่ออะไร? การที่มีบทบัญญัติเพิ่มขึ้นมาก็เพราะการล่วงละเมิดทั้งหลาย และบทบัญญัตินี้คงอยู่จนกว่า “พงศ์พันธุ์” นั้นซึ่งพระสัญญาระบุไว้มาถึง บทบัญญัติมีผลบังคับใช้ผ่านทางเหล่าทูตสวรรค์โดยคนกลาง
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แล้วกฎบัญญัติมีไว้เพื่ออะไร มีเพิ่มขึ้นมาไว้เพื่อให้เห็นว่าการกระทำใดเข้าข่ายการละเมิด จนกว่าผู้สืบเชื้อสายตามพระสัญญาที่อ้างถึงนั้นมาแล้ว บรรดาทูตสวรรค์เป็นผู้ที่ช่วยส่งกฎบัญญัติให้โดยมีคนกลาง
交叉引用
- Psalms 147:19 - He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.
- Psalms 147:20 - He has not dealt this way with any [other] nation; They have not known [understood, appreciated, heeded, or cherished] His ordinances. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
- John 5:45 - Do not think that I [am the One who] will accuse you before the Father. There [already] is one who accuses you: Moses, [the very one] in whom you have placed your hope [for salvation].
- John 5:46 - For if you believed and relied on [the Scriptures written by] Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me [personally].
- John 5:47 - But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
- Deuteronomy 5:22 - “The Lord spoke these words with a great voice to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and He added no more. He wrote these commandments on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
- Deuteronomy 5:23 - And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the leaders (heads) of your tribes and your elders;
- Deuteronomy 5:24 - and you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he [still] lives.
- Deuteronomy 5:25 - Now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we will die.
- Deuteronomy 5:26 - For who is there of all flesh (mankind) who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
- Deuteronomy 5:27 - You, Moses, go near and listen to everything that the Lord our God says; then speak to us everything that the Lord our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.’
- Deuteronomy 5:28 - “The Lord heard your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
- Deuteronomy 5:29 - Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear [and worship Me with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] and keep all My commandments always, so that it may go well with them and with their children forever!
- Deuteronomy 5:30 - Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”
- Deuteronomy 5:31 - But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will tell you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may obey them in the land which I give them to possess.’
- Deuteronomy 5:32 - Therefore you shall pay attention and be careful to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left [deviating from My commandments].
- Deuteronomy 5:33 - You shall walk [that is, live each and every day] in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long in the land which you will possess.
- Romans 3:1 - Then what is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
- Romans 3:2 - Great in every respect. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God [His very words].
- Hebrews 2:5 - It was not to angels that God subjected the [inhabited] world of the future [when Christ reigns], about which we are speaking.
- Exodus 34:27 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
- Exodus 34:28 - Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
- Exodus 34:29 - When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face was shining [with a unique radiance] because he had been speaking with God.
- Exodus 34:30 - When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.
- Exodus 34:31 - But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him; and he spoke to them.
- Exodus 34:32 - Afterward all the Israelites approached him, and he commanded them to do everything that the Lord had said to him on Mount Sinai.
- Exodus 34:33 - When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
- Exodus 34:34 - But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out. When he came out and he told the Israelites what he had been commanded [by God],
- Exodus 34:35 - the Israelites would see the face of Moses, how his skin shone [with a unique radiance]. So Moses put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with God.
- Deuteronomy 9:25 - “So I fell down and lay face down before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 9:26 - Then I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought from Egypt with a mighty hand.
- Deuteronomy 9:27 - Remember [with compassion] Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or at their sin,
- Deuteronomy 9:28 - so that the [people of the] land from which You brought us will not say, “Because the Lord was not capable of bringing them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to the wilderness [in order] to kill them.”
- Deuteronomy 9:29 - Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm.’
- Leviticus 15:32 - This is the law for the one who has a discharge and for the one who has a seminal emission, so that he is unclean by it;
- Deuteronomy 4:8 - Or what great nation has statutes and judgments so righteous (upright, just) as this whole law which I am placing before you today?
- Deuteronomy 4:9 - “Only pay attention and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your grandchildren [impressing these things on their mind and penetrating their heart with these truths]—
- Galatians 3:21 - Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a system of law had been given which could impart life, then righteousness (right standing with God) would actually have been based on law.
- Galatians 3:22 - But the Scripture has imprisoned everyone [everything—the entire world] under sin, so that [the inheritance, the blessing of salvation] which was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe [in Him and acknowledge Him as God’s precious Son].
- Galatians 3:23 - Now before faith came, we were kept in custody under the Law, [perpetually] imprisoned [in preparation] for the faith that was destined to be revealed,
- Galatians 3:24 - with the result that the Law has become our tutor and our disciplinarian to guide us to Christ, so that we may be justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with God] by faith.
- Galatians 3:25 - But now that faith has come, we are no longer under [the control and authority of] a tutor and disciplinarian.
- Luke 16:31 - And he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to [the messages of] Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”
- Psalms 106:23 - Therefore He said He would destroy them, [And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
- Deuteronomy 33:2 - He said, “The Lord came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came from among ten thousand holy ones; At His right hand was a flaming fire, a law, for them.
- Exodus 24:1 - Then God said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu (Aaron’s older sons), and seventy of Israel’s elders, and you shall worship at a [safe] distance.
- Exodus 24:2 - Moses alone shall approach the Lord, but the others shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.”
- Exodus 24:3 - Then Moses came and told the people everything that the Lord had said and all the ordinances. And all the people answered with one voice, “Everything the Lord has said we will do.”
- Exodus 24:4 - Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he got up early in the morning, and built an altar [for worship] at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars (memorial stones) representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 24:5 - Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.
- Exodus 24:6 - Moses took half of the blood and put it in large basins, and [the other] half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
- Exodus 24:7 - Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people; and they said, “Everything that the Lord has said we will do, and we will be obedient.”
- Exodus 24:8 - So Moses took the blood [which had been placed in the large basins] and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
- Exodus 24:9 - Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up [the mountainside],
- Exodus 24:10 - and they saw [a manifestation of] the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, just as clear as the sky itself.
- Exodus 24:11 - Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the Israelites; and they saw [the manifestation of the presence of] God, and ate and drank.
- Exodus 24:12 - Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments which I have written for their instruction.”
- Exodus 20:19 - Then they said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us or we will die.”
- Exodus 20:20 - Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him [that is, a profound reverence for Him] will remain with you, so that you do not sin.”
- Exodus 20:21 - So the people stood at a [safe] distance, but Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.
- Exodus 20:22 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.
- Deuteronomy 18:15 - “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me [Moses] from among you, from your countrymen (brothers, brethren). You shall listen to him.
- Deuteronomy 18:16 - This is according to all that you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb (Mount Sinai) on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear the voice of the Lord my God again, nor see this great fire anymore, so that I will not die.’
- Deuteronomy 18:17 - The Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.
- Deuteronomy 18:18 - I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
- Deuteronomy 18:19 - It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him [and there will be consequences].
- Galatians 4:1 - Now what I mean [when I talk about children and their guardians] is this: as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave even though he is the [future owner and] master of all [the estate];
- Galatians 4:2 - but he is under [the authority of] guardians and household administrators or managers until the date set by his father [when he is of legal age].
- Galatians 4:3 - So also we [whether Jews or Gentiles], when we were children (spiritually immature), were kept like slaves under the elementary [man-made religious or philosophical] teachings of the world.
- Galatians 4:4 - But when [in God’s plan] the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the [regulations of the] Law,
- Deuteronomy 9:13 - Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate) people.
- Deuteronomy 9:14 - Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
- Deuteronomy 9:15 - “So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
- Deuteronomy 9:16 - And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf (idol). You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 9:17 - So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands and smashed them before your very eyes!
- Deuteronomy 9:18 - Then, as before, I fell down before the Lord for [another] forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water, because of all the sin you had committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 9:19 - For I was afraid of the anger and absolute fury which the Lord held against you, [enough divine fury] to destroy you, but the Lord listened to me that time also.
- Deuteronomy 9:20 - The Lord was very angry with Aaron, angry [enough] to destroy him, so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
- Acts 7:38 - This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles [divine words that still live] to be handed down to you.
- Romans 3:19 - Now we know that whatever the Law [of Moses] says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that [the excuses of] every mouth may be silenced [from protesting] and that all the world may be held accountable to God [and subject to His judgment].
- Romans 3:20 - For no person will be justified [freed of guilt and declared righteous] in His sight by [trying to do] the works of the Law. For through the Law we become conscious of sin [and the recognition of sin directs us toward repentance, but provides no remedy for sin].
- John 15:22 - If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have [the guilt of their] sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
- John 1:17 - For the Law was given through Moses, but grace [the unearned, undeserved favor of God] and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- Romans 2:13 - For it is not those who merely hear the Law [as it is read aloud] who are just or righteous before God, but it is those who [actually] obey the Law who will be justified [pronounced free of the guilt of sin and declared acceptable to Him].
- 1 Timothy 1:8 - Now we know [without any doubt] that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully and appropriately,
- 1 Timothy 1:9 - understanding the fact that law is not enacted for the righteous person [the one in right standing with God], but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinful, for the irreverent and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
- Hebrews 2:2 - For if the message given through angels [the Law given to Moses] was authentic and unalterable, and every violation and disobedient act received an appropriate penalty,
- Romans 4:15 - For the Law results in [God’s] wrath [against sin], but where there is no law, there is no violation [of it either].
- Deuteronomy 5:5 - I was standing between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said,
- Romans 5:20 - But the Law came to increase and expand [the awareness of] the trespass [by defining and unmasking sin]. But where sin increased, [God’s remarkable, gracious gift of] grace [His unmerited favor] has surpassed it and increased all the more,
- Romans 5:21 - so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness which brings eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Galatians 3:16 - Now the promises [in the covenants] were decreed to Abraham and to his seed. God does not say, “And to seeds (descendants, heirs),” as if [referring] to many [persons], but as to one, “And to your Seed,” who is [none other than] Christ.
- Romans 7:7 - What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, if it had not been for the Law, I would not have recognized sin. For I would not have known [for example] about coveting [what belongs to another, and would have had no sense of guilt] if the Law had not [repeatedly] said, “You shall not covet.”
- Romans 7:8 - But sin, finding an opportunity through the commandment [to express itself] produced in me every kind of coveting and selfish desire. For without the Law sin is dead [the recognition of sin is inactive].
- Romans 7:9 - I was once alive without [knowledge of] the Law; but when the commandment came [and I understood its meaning], sin became alive and I died [since the Law sentenced me to death].
- Romans 7:10 - And the very commandment which was intended to bring life, actually proved to bring death for me.
- Romans 7:11 - For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, beguiled and completely deceived me, and using it as a weapon killed me [separating me from God].
- Romans 7:12 - So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
- Romans 7:13 - Did that which is good [the Law], then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order that it might be revealed as sin, was producing death in me by [using] this good thing [as a weapon], so that through the commandment sin would become exceedingly sinful.
- Acts 7:53 - you who received the law as ordained and delivered to you by angels, and yet you did not obey it!”