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 shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
• John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Rom 3:19–26Now 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.
• John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Heb 9:22According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
• John 8:32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
• John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
• 2 Cor 3:7–10Now 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,
• Heb 3:5–6Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
• Gal 3:10–13All 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.”
• Heb 8:8–12But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
• Acts 28:23So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
• Gen 22:18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
• Heb 10:4–10because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
• Rev 7:9–17After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
• Deut 5:1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
• Rev 5:8–10When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
• Gal 3:17What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
• Luke 1:54–55He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,
• Rom 15:8–12For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
• Acts 7:38He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
• Ps 85:10Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
• Exod 20:1–17And God spoke all these words:
• Heb 11:39–40These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
• John 5:45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
• Acts 13:34–39In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
• Luke 1:68–79“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
• John 9:29We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”
• Deut 33:4the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
• Mic 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
• Ps 98:3He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• 2 Cor 1:20For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
• Deut 4:44This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
• Ps 89:1–2A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.

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