For evils have surrounded me until there is no number; my iniquities have taken hold on me and I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.
But answering, he said to the father, Behold, so many years I serve you, and I have never transgressed a command of you. And you never gave a goat to me, so that I might be merry with my friends.
So that, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, for you to become Another’s, to the One having been raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit to God.
But now we have been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
For as many as are out of works of Law, these are under a curse. For it is writ- ten, “Accursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things having been written in the book of the Law, to do them.” Deut. 27:26