What Does the Bible Say About Law and Grace?
Here are 14 Bible verses about Law and Grace, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #1Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
BSBFor sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- #2Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
BSBFor Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
- #3Romans 7:7
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.
BSBWhat then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
- #4Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
BSBDo we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
- #5John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
BSBFor the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- #6Romans 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
BSBBut now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
- #7Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
BSBSo then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
- #8Galatians 5:18
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
BSBBut if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
- #9Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
BSBFor it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- #10James 2:10
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
BSBWhoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
- #11Galatians 3:10
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.
BSBAll who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- #12Romans 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
BSBTherefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- #13Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
BSBNow we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- #141 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
BSBFor this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).