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 have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
• John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• Rom 5:20–21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• Rom 3:19–26Now 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.
• John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
• Heb 9:22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
• John 8:32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
• John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
• 2 Cor 3:7–10But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
• Heb 3:5–6And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
• Gal 3:10–13For 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.
• Heb 8:8–12For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
• Acts 28:23And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
• Gen 22:18And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
• Heb 10:4–10For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
• Rev 7:9–17After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
• Deut 5:1And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
• Rev 5:8–10And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
• Gal 3:17And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
• Luke 1:54–55He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
• Rom 15:8–12Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
• Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
• Ps 85:10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
• Exod 20:1–17And God spake all these words, saying,
• Heb 11:39–40And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
• John 5:45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
• Acts 13:34–39And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
• Luke 1:68–79Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
• John 9:29We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
• Deut 33:4Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
• Mic 7:20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
• Ps 98:3He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward 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 in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
• Deut 4:44And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
• Ps 89:1–2I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

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