The Bible teaches that God's law reveals His righteous standards, as seen in Romans 7:7, where it is written that the law is holy and just. However, due to humanity's sinfulness, no one can fully meet these standards, and thus, God's grace is necessary for salvation. According to Romans 6:14 and 10:4, believers are no longer under the law's condemnation, but are instead under God's grace, which brings freedom and forgiveness. As stated in Romans 3:31, the law is not abolished, but rather, its purpose is fulfilled in Christ, who brings grace and truth, as John 1:17 declares. Through faith in Christ, believers experience the gift of righteousness.
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What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.