Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept {it}.

What shall we say then? {Is} the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

But we know that the law {is} good, if a man use it lawfully;

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

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. {guilty...: or, subject to the judgment of God}

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, {there is} no transgression.

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and {with} our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

(For not the hearers of the law {are} just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit {is there} of circumcision?

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. {cloke: or, excuse}

For the law was given by Moses, {but} grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:

And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand {went} a fiery law for them. {a fiery...: Heb. a fire of law}

These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

And what nation {is there so} great, that hath statutes and judgments {so} righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

{Is} the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is {one} that accuseth you, {even} Moses, in whom ye trust.

Now I say, {That} the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy {them}.

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

This {is} the law of him that hath an issue, and {of him} whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;

Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down {at the first}; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. {his word: Heb. his words}

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept {it}.

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, {there is} no transgression.

(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. {customs: or, rites}

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand {went} a fiery law for them. {a fiery...: Heb. a fire of law}

And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do {them} in the land which I give them to possess it.

Did not Moses give you the law, and {yet} none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and {with} our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: {elements: or, rudiments}

And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

But thou, Israel, {art} my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.