"For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (Joh 1:17 KJV) *“But” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the implied contrast between the Mosaic law and grace through Jesus Christ. - Translation note in the NET Bible.
"For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is whenever we call to him? And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?" (Deu 4:7-8 NRSVue) *The Old Covenant, Law of Moses was given only to Israel on a particular date. It is NEVER called "civil, ceremonial and moral law" in the Bible, that three-part idea is from tradition.
"Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, 'And to offsprings,' as of many, but it says, 'And to your offspring,' that is, to one person, who is Christ. My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise...Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator."(Gal 3:16-17, 19 NRSVue) *The Old Covenant, the Law of Moses came 430 years after Abraham and was to end when "the offspring would come", meaning Christ.
"When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves." (Rom 2:14 NRSVue) *Paul states clearly that the gentiles did not possess the law.
"Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory! Indeed, what once had glory has in this respect lost its glory because of the greater glory, for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!" (2Co 3:7-11 NRSVue) *This specifically mentions the "ten words", which were chiseled on stone, and traditionally termed Ten Commandments.
"For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us, abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it." (Eph 2:14-16 NRSVue) *Christ abolished the entire law, traditionally termed ceremonial, civil and moral.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished." (Mat 5:17-18 NRSVue) *Jesus' declared that he had not come to abolish the law...until all is accomplished. Remember Jesus words: When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (Joh 19:30 NRSVue)
"And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross." (Col 2:13-14 NRSVue)
"In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear." (Heb 8:13 NRSVue) *How much clearer can it be, that the Old Covenant was going to disappear, since the New Covenant had come in the blood of Christ.
"Therefore, do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food or drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the body belongs to Christ. Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, initiatory visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with a growth that is from God." (Col 2:16-19 NRSVue) *The religious world of humanist thinking, twist and pervert the gospel into a works salvation by many and varied deceits.
"For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is whenever we call to him? And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?" (Deu 4:7-8 NRSVue) *The Old Covenant, Law of Moses was given only to Israel on a particular date. It is NEVER called "civil, ceremonial and moral law" in the Bible, that three-part idea is from tradition.
"Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, 'And to offsprings,' as of many, but it says, 'And to your offspring,' that is, to one person, who is Christ. My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise...Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator."(Gal 3:16-17, 19 NRSVue) *The Old Covenant, the Law of Moses came 430 years after Abraham and was to end when "the offspring would come", meaning Christ.
"When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves." (Rom 2:14 NRSVue) *Paul states clearly that the gentiles did not possess the law.
"Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory! Indeed, what once had glory has in this respect lost its glory because of the greater glory, for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!" (2Co 3:7-11 NRSVue) *This specifically mentions the "ten words", which were chiseled on stone, and traditionally termed Ten Commandments.
"For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us, abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it." (Eph 2:14-16 NRSVue) *Christ abolished the entire law, traditionally termed ceremonial, civil and moral.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished." (Mat 5:17-18 NRSVue) *Jesus' declared that he had not come to abolish the law...until all is accomplished. Remember Jesus words: When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (Joh 19:30 NRSVue)
"And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross." (Col 2:13-14 NRSVue)
"In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear." (Heb 8:13 NRSVue) *How much clearer can it be, that the Old Covenant was going to disappear, since the New Covenant had come in the blood of Christ.
"Therefore, do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food or drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the body belongs to Christ. Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, initiatory visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with a growth that is from God." (Col 2:16-19 NRSVue) *The religious world of humanist thinking, twist and pervert the gospel into a works salvation by many and varied deceits.
