John 1:17

The law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. The covenant of Christ brings the fullness that the law anticipated.

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• Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Rom 3:19–26Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Heb 9:22According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
• John 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
• John 7:19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
• 2 Cor 3:7–10But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:
• Heb 3:5–6Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
• Gal 3:10–13For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
• Heb 8:8–12For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
• Acts 28:23When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
• Gen 22:18All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.”
• Heb 10:4–10For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
• Rev 7:9–17After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
• Deut 5:1Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
• Rev 5:8–10Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
• Gal 3:17Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
• Luke 1:54–55He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
• Rom 15:8–12Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
• Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
• Ps 85:10Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
• Exod 20:1–17God spoke all these words, saying,
• Heb 11:39–40These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,
• John 5:45“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
• Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
• Acts 13:34–39“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
• Luke 1:68–79“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
• John 9:29We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
• Deut 33:4Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
• Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
• Ps 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• 2 Cor 1:20For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
• Deut 4:44This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
• Ps 89:1–2A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

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