Never intending to be justified by the law, Paul could not have communicated anything more devastating to the prestige of the law.
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We are not to think that the law is wiped out. It remains, continuing to operate in the wicked. But a Christian is dead to the law but alive to Christ.
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Paul plays the law against the law, saying: The law of Moses condemns me; but I have the law of grace which condemns the accusing law of Moses.
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Christ's work, the cross, must never be belittled by human merit, so-called necessary religious works, which are a denial of Christ's power to save.
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Offering reparation through works to someone who feels the burden of their sins, is not only false teaching, it is pitiless because it is ineffective.
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By the grace of God we know that we are justified through faith in Christ alone, not mingling law and grace, faith and works, keeping them far apart.
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Thank God for having accomplished salvation for you. In this alone — in Christ alone — is the blessing of salvation and thus, life and peace.
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Do your best and you will still be a sinner. So, you need Jesus. God forbid you would add another requirement for salvation than his cross.
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Law reveals sin and fills a person with the fear of death and condemnation so that the conscience may wake up to the fact that God is angry.
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All who say that faith alone in Christ alone does not justify a person, would convert Christ into a minister of sin who requires the impossible of us.
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The proper work of the law is to lead us out of the security of our self-trust, into the presence of God, that we may perceive his anger at our sinfulness.
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Show me anyone who is able to render perfect obedience to God's commands. And even if they could, the law cannot justify. But God can.
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The law makes trouble even for those who have the Holy Spirit, for one who believes good works are indispensable unto salvation, will suffer afflictions.
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Moses is the minister of the law — of sin, wrath, death, and condemnation — while Christ Jesus is the minister of grace, of hope, life, and peace.
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Scripture makes frequent mention of faith in Christ. Whoever believes in him is saved, shall not perish, shall have everlasting life, is not judged, etc.
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If we are justified by the law, tell me, asks Paul through Luther, what has Christ achieved by his death, his preaching, his victory over sin and death?
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The answer is not dependence upon our working harder to make up for the sin. The answer is remembering the promise of God’s grace in baptism.
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The proper office of Christ is to raise the sinner, and extricate him from his sins. The proper response of the Christian is to live in this grace.
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We are not justified by Christ; or we are not justified by the law. Scripture says we are justified by Christ, so we see that the law is no justifier.
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It is not so much what you believe or who you believe but whom you believe, for there is only one who is the way to God the Father.
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“Flesh,” including reason, instinct, and deeds, says Paul, is not justified to God by works of the law but by faith in the one who covers our flesh.
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Let us not say that the law is bad, but only that it is not able to justify us to God. We have need of a far better mediator than Moses or the law.
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Christ is not an officer or any other representative of the law. He is the merciful and gracious Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
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The true and only way of becoming a Christian is to be justified by faith in Jesus Christ, and not by the works of the law or religion or anything but him.
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Christians are not people who do not sin; they are ones who have been forgiven their sins — not by what they do but through whom they believe.
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When sin has been forgiven, and the conscience has been eased of its dreadful load of guilt, a Christian can endure all things in Christ.
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Faith, Christ, and the imputation of righteousness, are to be linked together, faith taking hold of Christ, and God accounting this faith for righteousness.
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In order to be granted admittance into heaven, Christ Jesus must "know" you, must be in relationship with you through faith and hope in him.
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