What is “works of the law?”

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Elin

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just-me said:
The Works of The Law - Legalism in Galatians

Actually Paul does NOT use the expression "THE works of THE law" (even ONCE). The translators have wrongly inserted the definite article "THE". In the original Greek (as Young's literal translation tells us)
Paul is talking about a more generic expression "works of law".
NOT "the works of the law" - just "works of law".
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So precisely what generic law related to righteousness would Paul be referring to throughout the NT?

It's not rocket science.
 
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BradC

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Rom 7:4,5,6

4 Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
5 When we were living in the flesh (mere physical lives), the sinful passions that were awakened and aroused up by [what] the Law [makes sin] were constantly operating in our natural powers (in our bodily organs, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh, so that we bore fruit for death.
6 But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under [obedience to] the old code of written regulations, but [under obedience to the promptings] of the Spirit in newness [of life].

Can this be any clearer?
 
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