Paul Never Called the Law a Curse. Read Him Again.

[2Christ]

Paul Never Called the Law a Curse. Read Him Again.​

A common reading going around is that Paul taught the Law itself is a curse, something we were redeemed from in the sense of being freed from a bad thing. But if you follow Paul's own argument instead of stopping at a proof text, he says the opposite. The curse was never the Law. The curse was failing to keep it.

Look at Galatians 3:10, and notice Paul quotes his own source for the claim:

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."

Read that closely. The curse does not fall on the Law. It falls on the one who does not continue in it. Paul is not inventing this, he is quoting Deuteronomy 27:26 to make the point explicit. The curse is for non-performance, not for the Law's existence.

Then three verses later, in Galatians 3:13, Paul writes:

"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us."

This is the verse people stop at. But you cannot read verse 13 honestly without carrying verse 10 forward with it. Paul already told us what "the curse of the law" means. It is the penalty for breaking it, not the Law standing in as the penalty itself. Christ became a curse for us in the sense of bearing the consequence of our failure to keep it, not in the sense of absorbing something evil that the Law itself represented.

If there were any doubt Paul saw the Law itself as good rather than cursed, he removes it directly in Romans 7:12:

"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."

You cannot call a thing holy, just, and good in one letter and treat it as a curse from which deliverance means abandonment in another. Paul is consistent here, the inconsistency belongs to the reading, not to him.

And in case anyone thinks this was just an early position he later dropped, he reaffirms it plainly in Romans 3:31:

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."

Establish. Not dissolve. Not curse. Establish.

Here's a section to tack onto the end of the post, same voice, no em dashes:

A Few Other Verses People Lean On to say the Law is no more, abolished or death.

Galatians 3:10 and 3:13 are not the only verses pressed into this reading. A few others get used the same way, so it is worth answering them together.

2 Corinthians 3:7-9 calls the law "the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones." People stop at "death" and assume Paul is condemning the Law itself. But Paul is comparing two glories here, the glory Moses carried versus the greater glory of the new covenant. It is an argument from lesser to greater, not an argument from good to evil. Something can be glorious and still be surpassed.

Galatians 3:19 asks "Wherefore then serveth the law?" and answers "it was added because of transgressions." This gets read as though the Law was some kind of afterthought, added only because sin already existed, almost a necessary evil. But an added purpose is not the same as a curse. The Law was given to reveal transgression and hold it in check until the promise came. That is a job, not a judgment.

Colossians 2:14 is the one stretched furthest. Christ "blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us... took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." People read "against us" and hear the Law described as an enemy. But look at what is actually nailed to the cross, the handwriting, the record of the debt, not the commandments themselves. What was against us was what we owed for breaking the Law, not the Law that told us what was right.

Each of these does the same thing Galatians 3:13 does on its own. Taken in isolation, a phrase sounds like condemnation of the Law. Followed all the way through, in each case Paul is talking about death as a consequence, purpose as a function, or debt as a record, never the Law's content as evil. The pattern holds. Paul never once calls the Law itself a curse. People keep finding new verses to make him say it anyway.

 

[OMC]

Paul Never Called the Law a Curse. Read Him Again.​

A common reading going around is that Paul taught the Law itself is a curse, something we were redeemed from in the sense of being freed from a bad thing. But if you follow Paul's own argument instead of stopping at a proof text, he says the opposite. The curse was never the Law. The curse was failing to keep it.

Look at Galatians 3:10, and notice Paul quotes his own source for the claim:

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."

Read that closely. The curse does not fall on the Law. It falls on the one who does not continue in it. Paul is not inventing this, he is quoting Deuteronomy 27:26 to make the point explicit. The curse is for non-performance, not for the Law's existence.

Then three verses later, in Galatians 3:13, Paul writes:

"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us."

This is the verse people stop at. But you cannot read verse 13 honestly without carrying verse 10 forward with it. Paul already told us what "the curse of the law" means. It is the penalty for breaking it, not the Law standing in as the penalty itself. Christ became a curse for us in the sense of bearing the consequence of our failure to keep it, not in the sense of absorbing something evil that the Law itself represented.

If there were any doubt Paul saw the Law itself as good rather than cursed, he removes it directly in Romans 7:12:

"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."

You cannot call a thing holy, just, and good in one letter and treat it as a curse from which deliverance means abandonment in another. Paul is consistent here, the inconsistency belongs to the reading, not to him.

And in case anyone thinks this was just an early position he later dropped, he reaffirms it plainly in Romans 3:31:

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."

Establish. Not dissolve. Not curse. Establish.

Here's a section to tack onto the end of the post, same voice, no em dashes:

A Few Other Verses People Lean On to say the Law is no more, abolished or death.

Galatians 3:10 and 3:13 are not the only verses pressed into this reading. A few others get used the same way, so it is worth answering them together.

2 Corinthians 3:7-9 calls the law "the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones." People stop at "death" and assume Paul is condemning the Law itself. But Paul is comparing two glories here, the glory Moses carried versus the greater glory of the new covenant. It is an argument from lesser to greater, not an argument from good to evil. Something can be glorious and still be surpassed.

Galatians 3:19 asks "Wherefore then serveth the law?" and answers "it was added because of transgressions." This gets read as though the Law was some kind of afterthought, added only because sin already existed, almost a necessary evil. But an added purpose is not the same as a curse. The Law was given to reveal transgression and hold it in check until the promise came. That is a job, not a judgment.

Colossians 2:14 is the one stretched furthest. Christ "blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us... took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." People read "against us" and hear the Law described as an enemy. But look at what is actually nailed to the cross, the handwriting, the record of the debt, not the commandments themselves. What was against us was what we owed for breaking the Law, not the Law that told us what was right.

Each of these does the same thing Galatians 3:13 does on its own. Taken in isolation, a phrase sounds like condemnation of the Law. Followed all the way through, in each case Paul is talking about death as a consequence, purpose as a function, or debt as a record, never the Law's content as evil. The pattern holds. Paul never once calls the Law itself a curse. People keep finding new verses to make him say it anyway.

I agree, Paul never once calls the Law evil, cursed, abolished, or void; he calls our failure cursed, our debt nailed to the cross, our condemnation removed, and the Law’s righteous requirement fulfilled in those who walk by the Spirit (Rom 8:4).

 

[Genez]

Paul Never Called the Law a Curse. Read Him Again.​

A common reading going around is that Paul taught the Law itself is a curse, something we were redeemed from in the sense of being freed from a bad thing. But if you follow Paul's own argument instead of stopping at a proof text, he says the opposite. The curse was never the Law. The curse was failing to keep it.

Look at Galatians 3:10, and notice Paul quotes his own source for the claim:

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."

Read that closely. The curse does not fall on the Law. It falls on the one who does not continue in it. Paul is not inventing this, he is quoting Deuteronomy 27:26 to make the point explicit. The curse is for non-performance, not for the Law's existence.

Then three verses later, in Galatians 3:13, Paul writes:

"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us."

This is the verse people stop at. But you cannot read verse 13 honestly without carrying verse 10 forward with it. Paul already told us what "the curse of the law" means. It is the penalty for breaking it, not the Law standing in as the penalty itself. Christ became a curse for us in the sense of bearing the consequence of our failure to keep it, not in the sense of absorbing something evil that the Law itself represented.

If there were any doubt Paul saw the Law itself as good rather than cursed, he removes it directly in Romans 7:12:

"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."

You cannot call a thing holy, just, and good in one letter and treat it as a curse from which deliverance means abandonment in another. Paul is consistent here, the inconsistency belongs to the reading, not to him.

And in case anyone thinks this was just an early position he later dropped, he reaffirms it plainly in Romans 3:31:

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."

Establish. Not dissolve. Not curse. Establish.

Here's a section to tack onto the end of the post, same voice, no em dashes:

A Few Other Verses People Lean On to say the Law is no more, abolished or death.

Galatians 3:10 and 3:13 are not the only verses pressed into this reading. A few others get used the same way, so it is worth answering them together.

2 Corinthians 3:7-9 calls the law "the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones." People stop at "death" and assume Paul is condemning the Law itself. But Paul is comparing two glories here, the glory Moses carried versus the greater glory of the new covenant. It is an argument from lesser to greater, not an argument from good to evil. Something can be glorious and still be surpassed.

Galatians 3:19 asks "Wherefore then serveth the law?" and answers "it was added because of transgressions." This gets read as though the Law was some kind of afterthought, added only because sin already existed, almost a necessary evil. But an added purpose is not the same as a curse. The Law was given to reveal transgression and hold it in check until the promise came. That is a job, not a judgment.

Colossians 2:14 is the one stretched furthest. Christ "blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us... took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." People read "against us" and hear the Law described as an enemy. But look at what is actually nailed to the cross, the handwriting, the record of the debt, not the commandments themselves. What was against us was what we owed for breaking the Law, not the Law that told us what was right.

Each of these does the same thing Galatians 3:13 does on its own. Taken in isolation, a phrase sounds like condemnation of the Law. Followed all the way through, in each case Paul is talking about death as a consequence, purpose as a function, or debt as a record, never the Law's content as evil. The pattern holds. Paul never once calls the Law itself a curse. People keep finding new verses to make him say it anyway.

The curse of the law is that it mandated righteousness but provided no power to be as it mandated.
In effect, the law exposed man's depravity when one tried to fulfill it in the energy of their flesh.

That is why the special grace we Christians have been given (by the indwelling Holy Spirit) delivers us from the old problem that the OT believers had when attempting to fulfill the law.

In the Church age?

With the filling of the Spirit, which is secured by using 1 John 1:9 if we sin, we will find ourselves keeping the law as a normal outcome of our walk with God.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Galatians 5:18​

Islam has nothing to do with the enabling grace given by the Holy Spirit. That is why so many Muslims act barbaric and primitive to our thinking.

 

[Revelation1v8]

Paul Never Called the Law a Curse. Read Him Again.​

A common reading going around is that Paul taught the Law itself is a curse, something we were redeemed from in the sense of being freed from a bad thing. But if you follow Paul's own argument instead of stopping at a proof text, he says the opposite. The curse was never the Law. The curse was failing to keep it.

Look at Galatians 3:10, and notice Paul quotes his own source for the claim:

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."

Read that closely. The curse does not fall on the Law. It falls on the one who does not continue in it. Paul is not inventing this, he is quoting Deuteronomy 27:26 to make the point explicit. The curse is for non-performance, not for the Law's existence.

Then three verses later, in Galatians 3:13, Paul writes:

"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us."

This is the verse people stop at. But you cannot read verse 13 honestly without carrying verse 10 forward with it. Paul already told us what "the curse of the law" means. It is the penalty for breaking it, not the Law standing in as the penalty itself. Christ became a curse for us in the sense of bearing the consequence of our failure to keep it, not in the sense of absorbing something evil that the Law itself represented.

If there were any doubt Paul saw the Law itself as good rather than cursed, he removes it directly in Romans 7:12:

"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."

You cannot call a thing holy, just, and good in one letter and treat it as a curse from which deliverance means abandonment in another. Paul is consistent here, the inconsistency belongs to the reading, not to him.

And in case anyone thinks this was just an early position he later dropped, he reaffirms it plainly in Romans 3:31:

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."

Establish. Not dissolve. Not curse. Establish.

Here's a section to tack onto the end of the post, same voice, no em dashes:

A Few Other Verses People Lean On to say the Law is no more, abolished or death.

Galatians 3:10 and 3:13 are not the only verses pressed into this reading. A few others get used the same way, so it is worth answering them together.

2 Corinthians 3:7-9 calls the law "the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones." People stop at "death" and assume Paul is condemning the Law itself. But Paul is comparing two glories here, the glory Moses carried versus the greater glory of the new covenant. It is an argument from lesser to greater, not an argument from good to evil. Something can be glorious and still be surpassed.

Galatians 3:19 asks "Wherefore then serveth the law?" and answers "it was added because of transgressions." This gets read as though the Law was some kind of afterthought, added only because sin already existed, almost a necessary evil. But an added purpose is not the same as a curse. The Law was given to reveal transgression and hold it in check until the promise came. That is a job, not a judgment.

Colossians 2:14 is the one stretched furthest. Christ "blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us... took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." People read "against us" and hear the Law described as an enemy. But look at what is actually nailed to the cross, the handwriting, the record of the debt, not the commandments themselves. What was against us was what we owed for breaking the Law, not the Law that told us what was right.

Each of these does the same thing Galatians 3:13 does on its own. Taken in isolation, a phrase sounds like condemnation of the Law. Followed all the way through, in each case Paul is talking about death as a consequence, purpose as a function, or debt as a record, never the Law's content as evil. The pattern holds. Paul never once calls the Law itself a curse. People keep finding new verses to make him say it anyway.

That is precisely why Jesus said:

Matthew 5:18

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

What some people fail to realize is that while Jesus fulfilled the law and made a New Covenant, He will not abolish the old law forever until ALL BE FULFILLED and heaven and earth pass away.

Luke 24:44

And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

Until such time that Jesus fulfills ALL things written, we can expect that Israel/Jews will continue in the law given to them until God/Jesus makes Himself known to them like Romans 11:25 suggests.

Romans 11:25

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

 

[Yissachar]

For I delight in the Law of God after the inward man: Romans 7:22

Ezekiel 11:19-20
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

That they may walk in My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

The New Covenant is the Torah written upon a new heart that His people would be able to Keep it.

Hebrews 8:10 - Quoting Jeremiah 31:33
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith YHWH; I will put My Torahs into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them God, and they shall be to Me a people:

Lord Lord

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work Anomia. Matthew 7:23

Anomia = Without Law - Without Torah

The Greek word Anomia is found 13 times

Matthew 7:23 is the first time

The last two times Anomia is found

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3:4

Why will Jesus say to Many that call Him Lord, I never knew you? Because they were never born again, thus they were not able to keep the Law.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be. Romans 8:7

False witnesses said Paul did not keep the Law

Acts 21:24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

Paul did what was asked of him to prove he kept the Torah.

Where is the lawless covenant with gentiles in the scriptures? There isn't one

 

[tablet123]

Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the
law.

Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Paul said the law is spiritual, holy, just, and good.

The moral laws, laws of love.

But the law is a curse to those that do not accept the truth and the leading of the Spirit for they will never measure up.

But those who are led of the Spirit the law is a blessing for we must live up to the law to be saved.

Which Paul said we do not void out the law but we establish the law.

Matthew 19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Living up to the law is what saved us.

By the Spirit a blessing because we have the power to accomplish it.

By the flesh, the world, a curse for they will never measure up.

 

[BartholomewB]

He didn't? He came pretty close, though. "Christ redeemed us fom the curse of the law ... " (Gal 3:13)

 

[Yissachar]

Shabbat Shalom

Chag Sukkot Sameach - The Season of our Joy - the feast of tabernacles

In the Millennium

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. Zechariah 14:16-18

Today is Sukkot Day 1 ~ YESHUA'S Birthday - and He was circumcised on Shemini Atzeret - The Eighth Day

Those who will be blessed in the first resurrection will Keep His true Birthday.

YAHUWAH Tseba'oth will settle the score.

 

[ScooterJackson]

Paul Never Called the Law a Curse. Read Him Again.

No, the Lord just said through Paul the OT law was taken away so the New Covenant would be established which is the Law of Christ superseding the law of Moses

Now, there is a new house, the Body of Jesus Christ! Under the New Covenant that the Lord said would come forth, we see Jesus Christ as the High Priest. The old covenant with it’s laws and regulations have been taken away because thru Jesus Christ a new and better covenant has come in to place.

Hebrews 10:9 - Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
God said He would make a New Covenant - Jeremiah 31:31-34

Hebrews 8:6 - But now hath Jesus obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

And with the changing of the priesthood, God’s Word tells us there is also a change of the law.

Hebrews 7:12 - For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

And still people keep trying to shuck and jive Christians to go back under the law of Moses which will cause them to fall from grace just like the Galatians when they were bewitched to turned away from the Lord Jesus to go back to the law of Moses.

Galatians 5:4 - Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

 

[Toddini]

Shabbat Shalom

Chag Sukkot Sameach - The Season of our Joy - the feast of tabernacles

In the Millennium

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. Zechariah 14:16-18

Today is Sukkot Day 1 ~ YESHUA'S Birthday - and He was circumcised on Shemini Atzeret - The Eighth Day

Those who will be blessed in the first resurrection will Keep His true Birthday.

YAHUWAH Tseba'oth will settle the score.

I am interested in knowing how you determined today is Sukkot Day 1? (FYI I agree, but want to know how you know)

 

[Yissachar]

I am interested in knowing how you determined today is Sukkot Day 1? (FYI I agree, but want to know how you know)

The seventh new moon determines the day when Sukkot begins each year.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto YHWH. Leviticus 23:34

Because keeping Sukkot right now is a rehearsal for when His people will keep it in Jerusalem, Our way of showing Him our desire to keep it when He returns

I go by the sighted moon, sunset tonight 9/26 is the start of sukkot - Jacob's tent doesn't go by the sighted moon and began a day early in my opinion. Being a rehearsal, it's about the heart's desire to keep it.

When Is The New Moon – Monthly New Moon Updates and Sightings From Israel

whenisthenewmoon.com

 

[Toddini]

The seventh new moon determines the day when Sukkot begins each year.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto YHWH. Leviticus 23:34

Because keeping Sukkot right now is a rehearsal for when His people will keep it in Jerusalem, Our way of showing Him our desire to keep it when He returns

I go by the sighted moon, sunset tonight 9/26 is the start of sukkot - Jacob's tent doesn't go by the sighted moon and began a day early in my opinion. Being a rehearsal, it's about the heart's desire to keep it.

When Is The New Moon – Monthly New Moon Updates and Sightings From Israel

whenisthenewmoon.com

The Sukkot is established by the month and days which happens to be when a full moon will appear. The beginning of the Israel year was established by the maturity of Barley. It lines up well with the Spring Equinox, However that is never stated. This becomes somewhat problematic as that would make Sukkot six months not seven. If we back up seven months and 15 days from today we would end up in mid February. This appears to be early for biblical Aviv barley. Without knowing time, how do we know?

 

[2Christ]

The curse of the law is that it mandated righteousness but provided no power to be as it mandated.
In effect, the law exposed man's depravity when one tried to fulfill it in the energy of their flesh.

That is why the special grace we Christians have been given (by the indwelling Holy Spirit) delivers us from the old problem that the OT believers had when attempting to fulfill the law.

In the Church age?

With the filling of the Spirit, which is secured by using 1 John 1:9 if we sin, we will find ourselves keeping the law as a normal outcome of our walk with God.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Galatians 5:18​

Islam has nothing to do with the enabling grace given by the Holy Spirit. That is why so many Muslims act barbaric and primitive to our thinking.

Hi Genez, certainly you did not quoted Galatians 5:18 with the intention of saying we do not need the law but I will reply as if you intended it for others who might read this and think so, it would mean. Galatians 5:18 is being lifted out of its own chapter to say something Paul never intended. "Under the law" in Paul does not mean "released from any obligation to the law's commands." It means released from the law as a system for justification, from trying to be made right with God by law-keeping. Remember Paul is emphatic elsewhere that the law itself remains holy and good:

"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." (Romans 7:12)

If the Spirit-led life meant the commandments no longer applied, Paul contradicts himself within the same letter, because he spends the rest of Galatians 5 telling us exactly what walking in the Spirit produces, and it is not lawlessness. Read the very next verses:

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:19-21)

Paul just finished saying being led by the Spirit means you are not under the law, and immediately follows it by listing acts that the law already named as sin, adultery, idolatry, murder, and warns that doing them still excludes a person from the kingdom. If "not under the law" meant the commandments no longer bind, Paul's own warning in the next breath makes no sense. You cannot be exempt from a standard and still be judged by that same standard for breaking it.

Then look at what he says the Spirit produces instead:

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." (Galatians 5:22-23)

"Against such there is no law" does not mean the law has been abolished. It means the law has nothing to condemn in a person walking that way, because the fruit of the Spirit fulfills what the law was always pointing to. Paul says the same thing plainly elsewhere:

"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." (Galatians 5:14)

Fulfilled, not erased. Being led by the Spirit does not put a man outside the law's authority to define sin. It puts him in a position where the Spirit produces from the inside what the law always demanded from the outside, and that is precisely why Paul can say in the same breath that those still doing the works of the flesh will not inherit the kingdom. The law's claim on right and wrong never moved. What changed is the power to walk in it given by the Holy Spirit what Jesus promised to send us.

Blessings.

 

[Yissachar]

The Sukkot is established by the month and days which happens to be when a full moon will appear. The beginning of the Israel year was established by the maturity of Barley. It lines up well with the Spring Equinox, However that is never stated. This becomes somewhat problematic as that would make Sukkot six months not seven. If we back up seven months and 15 days from today we would end up in mid February. This appears to be early for biblical Aviv barley. Without knowing time, how do we know?

Exodus 12:2

This month-(Chodesh-New Moon) shall be unto you the beginning of months-(New Moons): it shall be the first month-(New Moon) of the year to you.

H2320
chôdesh, kho'-desh; from; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.

Full moons occur in the middle of the month, all Biblical months are established by the New Moon

Yes it's the middle of the month is when Passover occurs every year, the middle of the month for Sukkot, and that is when the moon is full but that does not determine when a month begins Biblically.

Happy New Moon, Everyone! The New Moon was sighted with the naked eye in Israel this evening, on Friday, March 20th, 2026! - Abib 1

Happy New Moon, Everyone! Happy Feast of Trumpets / Yom Teruah!

With much joy and excitement, we are happy to report that the crescent New Moon was reportedly sighted with the naked eye in Israel this evening, on Saturday, September 12th, 2026!

That's 7 new moons

Sukkot Day 1 - Sunset 9/26

When Is The New Moon – Monthly New Moon Updates and Sightings From Israel

whenisthenewmoon.com

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[Genez]

Hi Genez, certainly you did not quoted Galatians 5:18 with the intention of saying we do not need the law but I will reply as if you intended it for others who might read this and think so, it would mean. Galatians 5:18 is being lifted out of its own chapter to say something Paul never intended. "Under the law" in Paul does not mean "released from any obligation to the law's commands."

I never said that was the case.

I said that those filled and led by the Spirit will fulfill the Law.

If they find themselves breaking the Law?
It is an indication they have unconfessed sin and the need to recover the filling by utilizing 1 John 1:9.

If we confess/acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

 

[Genez]

He didn't? He came pretty close, though. "Christ redeemed us fom the curse of the law ... " (Gal 3:13)

The curse of the Law was not what it demanded.

The curse was that man did not have the natural power needed to do all that it mandated.