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

Much in every way: chiefly because they were entrusted with the Words of God.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Let it not be! On the contrary, I would not have understood sin except through the Law. For I would not have known lust unless the Law had said, You shall not covet.

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

For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Has then that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

Is the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be. For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been out of the Law.

But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the Law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.

And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this Law which I am setting before you this day?

Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, that you not forget the things your eyes have seen, and that they not depart from your heart all the days of your life; and teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

He declares His Word unto Jacob, His Statutes and His justice unto Israel.

He has not dealt thus with any other nation; and they have not known His justice. Praise YAH!

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

Do not think that I shall 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 for their sin.

(for not the hearers of the Law are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified;

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

because the Law brings about wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Moreover the Law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

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

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Let it not be! On the contrary, I would not have understood sin except through the Law. For I would not have known lust unless the Law had said, You shall not covet.

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

For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Has then that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, was producing death in me through what 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 made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for slayers of fathers and slayers of mothers, for murderers,

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

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,

Even so we, when we were children, were enslaved under the elements of the world.

And he said: Jehovah has come from Sinai, and dawned on them from Seir; He has shone forth from Mount Paran, and He has come with ten thousands of saints; from His right hand a fiery Law for them.

of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels.

And they said unto Moses, You speak with us, and we will listen; but let not God speak with us, that we not die.

And the people stood at a distance, and Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

And He said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and prostrate yourselves from a distance.

And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has spoken we will do.

And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and slaughtered oxen for sacrifices of peace unto Jehovah.

And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the ears of the people. And they said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do and obey.

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

And He did not let loose His hand against the nobles of the children of Israel. And they saw God, and they ate and drank.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words; according to these words at My mouth, I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (the two tablets of the Testimony being in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while He spoke with him.

And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke with them.

And when Moses was finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.

This is the law for one who has a discharge, and for him who emits semen and is unclean by it,

I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to declare to you the Word of Jehovah (for you were afraid of the presence of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain), saying:

These words Jehovah has spoken to all your assembly, on the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He has added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

And you said, Behold, Jehovah our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man, yet he lives.

For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

And Jehovah heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and Jehovah said to me: I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

Go and say to them, Return to your tents.

Therefore, take heed to do as Jehovah your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Furthermore Jehovah spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

And I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

For I was afraid of the anger and fury with which Jehovah had been angry with you, to destroy you. But Jehovah gave heed to me at that time also.

Thus I prostrated myself before Jehovah; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because Jehovah had thought to annihilate you.

Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,

Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm.

Jehovah your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,

And Jehovah said to me: In that, they have spoken well.

And it shall be that whoever will not give heed to My Words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.

Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His elect stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, so that He should not destroy them.

For the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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