the law.

Romans 3:19, 20
Now 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. . . .

Romans 4:15
because the Law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Romans 6:14
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:5-13
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the Law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. . . .

John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

2 Corinthians 3:7-9
Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory, . . .

Galatians 3:19-25
Why then was the Law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator. . . .

But.

Romans 6:1
What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

2 Chronicles 33:9-13
So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites. . . .

Psalm 25:11
For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

Isaiah 1:18
"Come now, let us reason together, " says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

Isaiah 43:24, 25
You have bought Me no sweet cane with your silver, nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities. . . .

Jeremiah 3:8-14
Because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. . . .

Ezekiel 16:52, 60-63
So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous. . . .

Ezekiel 36:25-32
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. . . .

Micah 7:18, 19
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance--who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? . . .

Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little."

Luke 23:39-43
One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. "Are You not the Christ?" he said. "Save Yourself and us!" . . .

John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, . . .

Ephesians 1:6-8
to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One. . . .

Ephesians 2:1-5
As for you, you were dead in your trespasses and sins, . . .

1 Timothy 1:13-16
I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy. . . .

Titus 3:3-7
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. . . .