The law serves to reveal God's holiness and our need for grace, but believers are not under its dominion (Romans 6:14).
The law, as Paul describes, is holy, just, and good, meant to reveal God's standards and humanity's shortcomings. It illustrates our inability to achieve righteousness on our own, thereby driving us to rely on Christ for our justification (Romans 7:12). However, once we are united with Christ and justified by faith, believers are no longer under the law's curse but are free to live under grace. This freedom does not dismiss the moral imperatives of the law; rather, it empowers us to live righteously out of love for God and gratitude for His grace. Through the law, we learn of sin, but in Christ, we find the power to live according to God's will.
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