Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
“And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.
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