"Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin."
In the first paragraph of today's quote, Paul describes how the Jews had become totally vile and corrupt so far as their relationship with God was concerned. Then he went further to say that the law was given to them merely to demonstrate that they would not live within it, and because of their failure to obey it, Paul said, "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin."
Paul demonstrated that the Law of Moses was only given to expose the inability of mankind to live above sin so as to show him/herself worthy of God's eternal salvation.
By establishing the above, Paul demonstrated the need for a Redeemer, Jesus, the perfect, sinless sacrifice, who by being perfect within the law and without sin, was a worthy sacrifice for all the sins of mankind.
Sadly, and even after Paul made it so clear that "by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight", most of modern "Christianity" still insists that, in order to be eternally saved, one must obey all the rules of the law.~
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