The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. [SUP]
3 [/SUP]So you must be careful to do everything they tell you.
But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. Matt23:2&3
Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”[SUP]
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Jesus answered,
“The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” John 6:28&29
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Rom 7:7-11
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy Rom 9:16
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; [SUP]
31 [/SUP]but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. [SUP]
32 [/SUP]Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works Rom 9:30-32
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth Rom 10:4
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For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself. Gal5:14
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ Gal6:2
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus,
and who put no confidence in the flesh Phil 3:3
not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[SUP]
[a][/SUP] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith Phil3:9
Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the
obedience that comes from[SUP][c][/SUP] faith for his name’s sake Rom 1:5
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith
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[e][/SUP] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith Rom 1:17
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”[SUP]
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11 [/SUP]Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith Gal3:10&11