Breaking the Law

Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

…because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.