Bible Verses About Law

For if there was glory in what worked to declare people guilty, how much more must the glory abound in what works to declare people innocent!

In fact, by comparison with this greater glory, what was made glorious before has no glory now.

For if there was glory in what faded away, how much more glory must there be in what lasts.

Therefore, with a hope like this, we are very open —

unlike Moshe, who put a veil over his face, so that the people of Isra’el would not see the fading brightness come to an end.

What is more, their minds were made stonelike; for to this day the same veil remains over them when they read the Old Covenant; it has not been unveiled, because only by the Messiah is the veil taken away.

But they didn’t force my Gentile companion Titus to undergo b’rit-milah.

Indeed, the question came up only because some men who pretended to be brothers had been sneaked in — they came in surreptitiously to spy out the freedom we have in the Messiah Yeshua, so that they might enslave us.

Not even for a minute did we give in to them, so that the truth of the Good News might be preserved for you.

Moreover, those who were the acknowledged leaders — what they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by outward appearances — these leaders added nothing to me.

On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the Uncircumcised, just as Kefa had been for the Circumcised;

since the One working in Kefa to make him an emissary to the Circumcised had worked in me to make me an emissary to the Gentiles.

So, having perceived what grace had been given to me, Ya‘akov, Kefa and Yochanan, the acknowledged pillars of the community, extended to me and Bar-Nabba the right hand of fellowship; so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the Circumcised.

Nevertheless, what does the Tanakh say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for by no means will the son of the slave woman inherit along with the son of the free woman!”

So, brothers, we are children not of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

He wiped away the bill of charges against us. Because of the regulations, it stood as a testimony against us; but he removed it by nailing it to the execution-stake.

Stripping the rulers and authorities of their power, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by means of the stake.

So don’t let anyone pass judgment on you in connection with eating and drinking, or in regard to a Jewish festival or Rosh-Hodesh or Shabbat.

These are a shadow of things that are coming, but the body is of the Messiah.

Don’t let anyone deny you the prize by insisting that you engage in self-mortification or angel-worship. Such people are always going on about some vision they have had, and they vainly puff themselves up by their worldly outlook.

They fail to hold to the Head, from whom the whole Body, receiving supply and being held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God makes it grow.

If, along with the Messiah, you died to the elemental spirits of the world, then why, as if you still belonged to the world, are you letting yourselves be bothered by its rules? —

“Don’t touch this!” “Don’t eat that!” “Don’t handle the other!”

Such prohibitions are concerned with things meant to perish by being used [not by being avoided!], and they are based on man-made rules and teachings.

They do indeed have the outward appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed religious observances, false humility and asceticism; but they have no value at all in restraining people from indulging their old nature.