What then [is] the superiority of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

Much in every way! First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

For sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, deceived me, and by it, killed me.

Then has that which is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through that which is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

Therefore, [is] the law against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, having been hemmed in for the faith which was to be revealed.

And what manner of nation [is so] great, which has righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?

Take heed to yourself, and keep your heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which your eyes have seen, and let them not depart from your heart all the days of your life; and you shall teach your sons and your sons' sons,

He sends His word to Jacob, His ordinances and judgments to Israel.

He has not done so to any [other] nation; and He has not shown them His judgments.

But he said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded should one rise from the dead.'"

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you have hoped.

But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.

(for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law [comes] [the] knowledge of sin.

because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law neither is there transgression.

But [the] law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

For sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, deceived me, and by it, killed me.

Then has that which is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through that which is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully,

knowing this: that the law is not laid down for the righteous, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for killers of fathers and killers of mothers, for murderers,

Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises spoken. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ.

But after faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian.

Now I say, for as much time as the heir is a minor, he does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,

Even so we, when we were minors, were enslaved by the elements of the world.

And he said, The Lord has come from Sinai, and has appeared from Seir to us, and has shone forth from Mount Paran, with the ten thousands of Kadesh; on His right hand [were] His angels with Him.

who have received the law as [the] ordinances of angels and you did not keep it."

For if the word which was spoken through angels was confirmed, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,

For He did not subject the world which is to come, concerning which we speak, to angels.

and said to Moses, You speak to us, but let not God speak to us, lest we die.

And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the darkness where God was.

And to Moses he said, Go up to the Lord, you and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they shall worship the Lord from a distance.

And Moses went in and related to the people all the words of God and the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, saying, All the words which the Lord has spoken, we will do and be obedient.

And he sent forth the young men of the children of Israel, and they offered whole burnt offerings, and they sacrificed young calves as a peace offering to God.

And he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the ears of the people, and they said, All things whatsoever the Lord has said we will do and be obedient.

And Moses went up, and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.

And of the chosen ones of Israel there was not even one missing, and they appeared in the place of God, and did eat and drink.

And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for yourself, for on these words I have established a covenant with you and with Israel.

Now when Moses came down from the mountain ([there were] two tablets in Moses' hand as he came down from the mountain), Moses knew not that the appearance of the skin of his face was glorified, when God spoke to him.

And Moses called them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the synagogue turned towards him, and Moses spoke to them.

And when he ceased speaking to them, he put a veil on his face.

And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that it was glorified; and Moses put the veil over his face, till he went in to speak with Him.

This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.

And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the Lord, (because you were afraid before the fire, and you went not up to the mountain,) saying,

These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire- [there was] darkness, blackness, a storm, [and] a loud voice- and He added no more, and He wrote them on two tablets of stone, and He gave them to me.

and you said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.

For what man [is there,] who has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we [have heard], and shall live?

And the Lord heard the voice of your words as you spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to you. [They have] well [said] all that they have spoken.

Go, say to them, Return to your houses,

And you shall take heed to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left,

And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to you once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven; and the two tablets of the testimonies [were] in my two hands.

then I took hold of the two tablets, and cast them out of my hands, and broke them before you.

And I was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly, to destroy you; yet the Lord hearkened to me at this time also.

And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed [before], for the Lord said that He would utterly destroy you.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their wickedness, and their sins.

And these [are] Your people and Your portion, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with Your great strength, and with Your mighty hand, and with Your outstretched arm.

The Lord your God shall raise up to you a Prophet from among your brethren, like me; Him shall you hear,

And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly, all that they have said to you.

And whoever shall not hearken to all the words that [the] Prophet shall speak in My name, I will take vengeance on him.

So He said that He would have destroyed them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn [Him] away from the fierceness of His anger, so that He should not destroy them.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and [with] our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,