Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior Robertson, Crimes against humanity, 90.
Law is a system that regulates and ensures that individuals or a community adhere to the will of the state. State-enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or established by judges through precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions (source: wikipedia.com).
The law of the scriptures is no different from the law the law of the state.
Law is a system that regulates and ensures that individuals or a community adhere to the will of the state. State-enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or established by judges through precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions (source: wikipedia.com).
The law of the scriptures is no different from the law the law of the state.
The law is only good if used in the right context. (1 Timothy 1:8) (see next verse for the context)
It was made for the unrighteous(moses and all to other people who had not received Jesus' righteousness) but not for the righteous. (1 Timothy 1:9-10). It is bad to be lawless of if you are no longer under the grip of sin because sin is no longer your master.
The law alone does not justify anybody. (Galatians 2:16)
Christians are dead to the law in its powers because it cannot control you. (Galatians 2:19)
Following the law strictly to earn righteousness alone frustrates grace. (Galatians 2:21)
To think the law is the basis of righteousness after embracing faith is “stupid”. (Galatians 3:1)
The law curses all practice the law only for their righteousness because they cannot do it perfectly. (Galatians 3:10)
''Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” . (Galatians 3:11-12)
The law because of sin 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)