ry mouth may be stopped, and all the world may
become guilty before God."--Rom. 3:19.
"Ye are not under the law."--Rom. 6:14.
"The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we
might be justified by faith, but _after that faith is come we are
no longer under a schoolmaster_. For ye are all the children of God
by faith in Jesus Christ."--Gal. 3:24-26.
"When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son born of
a woman, born under the law, to redeem them that were under the
law, _that we might receive the adoption of sons_. And because ye
are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your
hearts, crying Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant,
but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."--Gal.
4:4-7.
"Having in love predestinated us for adoption as sons through Jesus
Christ to himself."--Eph. 1:5.
"The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if
one died for all, then all died; and he died for all, that they who
live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who
died for them and rose again."--2 Cor. 5:14, 15.
"There was a certain creditor who had two debtors; the one owed
five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing
to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore which of
them will love him most?"--Luke 7:41, 42.
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
love, I am become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could
remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I
bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to
be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing."--1 Cor.
13:1-3.
_In God's plan with men_, His purpose in giving the law has been sadly
misunderstood. To the Jews the law was given on tablets of stone and
copied in their sacred writings; to the Gentiles the law was written
in their hearts. The one class had more light than the other, and
therefore will be judged differently.
"As many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law; and
as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the
law."--Rom. 2:12. "For w
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