The Moral Law
Binding on All
Law and Gospel · 6 verses
The moral law obliges every human creature without exception or exemption. Neither Christ's redemptive work nor the believer's justification nullifies the law's demands for perfect obedience; rather, the gospel upholds and establishes the law while providing what the law requires but cannot produce. All persons, in all places, at all times, remain under obligation to render complete conformity to God's moral requirements, though believers alone possess both the desire and the enablement to pursue such conformity.
Scripture References
“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.”
“For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.”
“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”
“Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”