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Revelation 14:14
Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
 
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The law is a ministry of death. (2 Corinthians 3:7)​
The law is a ministry of condemnation. (2 Corinthians 3:9)​
The law has no glory at all in comparison with the New Covenant. (2 Corinthians 3:10)​
The law is fading away. (2 Corinthians 3:11)​
Anywhere the law is preached it produces a mind-hardening and a heart-hardening veil. (2 Corinthians 3:14-15)​
 
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The law justifies nobody. (Galatians 2:16)​
Christians are dead to the law. (Galatians 2:19)​
The law frustrates grace. (Galatians 2:21)​
To go back to the law after embracing faith is “stupid”. (Galatians 3:1)​
The law curses all who practice it and fail to do it perfectly. (Galatians 3:10)​
The law has nothing to do with faith. (Galatians 3:11-12)​
The law was a curse that Christ redeemed us from. (Galatians 3:13)​
The law functioned in God’s purpose as a temporary covenant from Moses till John the Baptist announced Christ. (Galatians 3:16 & 19, also see… Matthew 11:12-13, Luke 16:16)​
If the law worked God would have used it to save us. (Galatians 3:21)​
The law was our prison. (Galatians 3:23)​
The law makes you a slave like Hagar. (Galatians 4:24)​
 
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Romans 6:16
Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.
 
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Paul considered everything the law gained him as “skybalon” which is Greek for “crap, feces”. (Philippians 3:4-8)
 
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The law is only good if used in the right context. (1 Timothy 1:8)​
It was made for the unrighteous but not for the righteous. (1 Timothy 1:9-10)​
 
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Matthew 8:27
But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?
 
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The law is weak, useless and makes nothing perfect. (Hebrews 7:18-19)​
God has found fault with it and created a better covenant, enacted on better promises. (Hebrews 8:7-8)​
It is obsolete, growing old and ready to vanish. (Hebrews 8:13)​
It is only a shadow of good things to come and will never make someone perfect. (Hebrews 10:1)​
 
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Mark 1:27
And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying: What thing is this? what is this new doctrine? for with power he commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.
 
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NO ONE has kept or keeps the LAW/Commandments of GOD except JESUS........those who think they have or do are delusional and are missing the purpose of the LAW/Commandment which PROVE GUILT and POINT to the only CURE....FAITH in JESUS

END of story.........
 
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Mark 4:40
And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet? And they feared exceedingly: and they said one to another: Who is this (thinkest thou) that both wind and sea obey him?
 
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Luke 8:25
And he said to them: Where is your faith? Who being afraid, wondered, saying one to another: Who is this, (think you), that he commandeth both the winds and the sea, and they obey him?
 
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Luke 17:6
And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.
 
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Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men.
 
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Acts 5:32
And we are witnesses of these things and the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to all that obey him.
 
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J70x7 DO YOU keep the LAW and OBEY the commandments of GOD without SIN?

Yes or NO will SUFFICE!
 
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Acs 7:39
Whom our fathers would not obey; but thrust him away, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,
 
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Romans 2:8
But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.