Please explain "For Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness."

Question

Does end of the law mean - to end the law, as in to end slavery. Or does it mean it is at the end of a list of laws, or what else could it mean?

"To have faith" - to have (exercise) faith in what? That Jesus is our saviour, or to have faith that Jesus' messages are true, surely this verse is referring to a specific thing or message to have faith in.

Of course it is good to have faith in both. But what does this verse mean when it says to have faith?

great answers. Thank you.

However, I would like to know what Jesus said about this subject.

Answer 1

the end of the mosaic Law which the jews lived by. all the do's and don'ts in exdous , leviticus, deuteronomy, and numbers.

man could never fully obey the Law and become righteous thru his actions. man always sins and falls short so God had to devise a way to totally cleanse man and free him from sin.

now man is righteous because of what Jesus did (dying and defeating death and reconciling us back to God) so now instead of sacraficing animals and using animal blood to cleanse man, man is cleansed by the Blood of Jesus.

in order to benefit from this though you must have faith in Jesus Christ. you must believe He is the Son of God, died and rose again and is sitting at the right hand of God and is coming back again. you must believe that when He died, you died and when He rose, you rose. this requires faith.

this is what baptism symbolizes. our death burial and resurrection- we are burying our old man or carnal self and rising up a new man, a new creation, a child of God. thus we are born agian. new spiritual creatures that are now legally allowed to being in God's presence because we are righteous thru Jesus' blood.

so you are having faith in the fact that you are righteous. no matter what you do or don't do you are righteous because of what JESUS did. He made us righteous thru His Blood.

if you read Romans, especially the first 8 chapters and really meditate on them, read them in different translations and really pray and ask the Holy Spirit for revelation of them and you wil understand.

Answer 2

I just preached on this exact theme and these verses..
You need to read this one carefully and you will find that when you live under the guidance of the Holy Spirit you are not under the law.
A new testament believer does not have his own righteousness (which comes from the law) he has the righteousness of Christ which comes from faith in the sacrafice of Christ on the cross.
When you are living in faith in what Christ did for you on the cross, then you are NOT living trying to keep the law. Christ has put us under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We are to then walk or live under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit will lead you into a right and holy life before God. If you are doing this then you are not worrying about the 10 commandments or any of the others and you are righteous because of the Holiness of Christ..
This is from Romans 10:
You need to read the whole chapter to get the context, but it is a good message. We must walk and live in the righteousness of Christ by faith in what he did for us and the resurrection power of Christ is in us and working through us so that we can live a godly and holy life before him.

Answer 3

It means that Christ is the end of the law as a means of obtaining righteousness, or right standing with God. Actually the Greek says Christ is the end of law - the article does not appear in the Greek, which is to say, if I may paraphrase Christ is the end of law as a principle or basis of obtaining right standing with God. The faith referred to is elaborated a little further down the passage, in verses 9 and 10. "That if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness and with the mouth one confesses (verbally agrees that) Jesus is Lord, resulting in salvation." (Romans 10:9,10)
Faith is in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ as God's means of reconciling sinners to Himself. Jesus bore the full wrath of God upon Himself which was due against all lawbreakers, so that the right standing He had with God might be bestowed as a gift on all who believe. This was the great exchange of the Cross.

Answer 4

It means to end most laws of the Old Testament. For example, the requirement of burnt offerings. It means to begin the law of the New Testament which is to have Faith in Christ.

Answer 5

It means that Jesus was supposed to be the fullfillment of the law. In other words the old laws of sacrificing for the forgiveness of sin. He is considered the ultimate and last sacrifice needed. To have faith in this and believe it is to gain everlasting life. I don't believe any of this but I used to go to church and I know what this means.

Answer 6

ok in the old testiment.. before Christ came.. in order to follow God the Jews had to work very hard at obeying the law and making sacrifices of animals to pay for the sins that they commited.

When Christ came he died for the sins of the people and because he was the perfect sacrifice his blood covered all sins of all people.
1 Peter 1:18&19 "knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."

Because of this sacrifice for the sins of the people they no longer had to follow the law to gain righteousness.. they simply had to accept what Christ had done for them. therefore making "Christ the end of the law"
Galatians 2:16 says, “know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Jesus Christ that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.”

To "have faith" is more than just believing that Jesus's messages are true. Even the demons believe in the scripture:
James 2:19 "You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!"

the "faith" is referring to a faith in Christ himself - a faith that his blood was enough to save us from our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

when we believe in this we then repent of our sins and accept Christ's gift of salvation we thereby are putting our faith in Him

i really hope this helps


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Answer 7

You don't say who wrote this verse but I suspect it refers to the debate that occurred in the early church as to whether Christians had to observe the laws of the old testament. In other words did newly converted Christians who were once gentiles now have to become observant Jews as well. The writer is arguing, "No", that faith in Christ is most important.

Answer 8

Does all and sundry that refuses to believe in Christ and settle for Him as their Lord and Savior now stay under the grace of Christ, or do they proceed to stay under the regulation? "The" regulation replaced right into a covenant regulation with God and Israel as events. That covenant ended. people who're no longer under grace are under condemnation, no longer because of the fact they broke a regulation, yet because of the fact of their nature, being the offspring of Adam. He that believeth on him isn't condemned: yet he that believeth no longer is condemned already, because of the fact he hath no longer believed contained in the call of the sole begotten Son of God. - John 3:18 Dose each Christian that has time-honored settle for Christ as their Lord and Savior now stay under the grace of Christ, or proceed to stay under the regulation? it incredibly is one or the different. Grace and regulation are opposites. Does this passage from Galatians let us know that the regulation nevertheless exists, and that by using following the previous regulation we won't be made righteous? That regulation as a covenant regulation ceased to exist whilst Christ died, on an analogous time as a marriage covenant ends upon the loss of existence of the two occasion. (Rom 7). Did Christ answer this question as a regulation that replaced into approximately to end along with his loss of existence or or a contemporary regulation that could bear constantly? An everlasting regulation of love. That which defines God as appropriate. (Mt. 5:28?) the sole ones under grace are people who very own the Holy Spirit, and that's people who believe the gospel that receive the Holy Spirit. Watchtower, like each employer, could have some issues ideal, collectively as being incorrect on greater significant concerns. .

Answer 9

This refers to the New Law He has brought... to replace the Old Law.. (the Ten Commandments). The old law is for sinners, the New Law is for those righteous. To be righteous means you have the faith in what He professes to you, and are living accordingly.

Answer 10

Christ is the end of the law because we are saved & forgiven by God through GOD'S GRACE not our own works.

By trying to do good deeds to get into heaven , it doesn't work because we will never do enough good deeds to go to heaven.

God is perfect and only perfect people can go to meet God in heaven, IF WE STICK TO THE LAW.

Hence, we cannot stick to the law (the list of things to do and not to do) and hope to go to heaven this way because EVERYONE HAS SINNED AND FALLS SHORT OF THE PERFECT STANDARD OF GOD.

Hence, Christ is the end of the law because PURELY BY BELIEVING THAT CHRIST HAS TAKEN YOUR SIN UPON HIMSELF TO BE PUNISHED FOR YOUR SIN, will we not be held to the consequences of sin that all of us would otherwise be subject to.

Hence, FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST , that he is God Himself come in human form to redeem us and faith in God's mercy & God's grace (not in our own "works" or efforts to reach God, cos we will never be righteous enough to find Him on our own)

Read http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/1325.htm
http://www.apibs.org/chs/1325.htm
carefully for more detail.