Law: Temporary

“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. …

The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.” …

A slave does not remain in the house forever, but a son remains forever.

For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” …

When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. …

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? …

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

Now 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, …

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. …

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

…by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

…having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! …

Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law. …

By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. …

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. …

God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

…to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.

The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.