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For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
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Christ: The Law's End and Goal
Scholars highlight a dual meaning in the word "end" (Greek: telos). Christ is the termination of the law as a system for earning righteousness; we are no longer under its condemnation. He is also the fulfillment and ultimate goal of the law, the very person it was designed to point towards. As John Calvin notes, the law was meant to lead us to Christ.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For Christ. This expression implies faith in Christ. This is the design of the discussion: to show that justification cannot be o…
The end of the law (τελος νομου). Christ put a stop to the law as a means of salvation (6:14; 9:31; Ephesians 2:15; [R…
19th Century
Anglican
The end of the law.—“End,” in the proper sense of termination or conclusion. Christ is that which brings the functions of the Law to an en…
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Baptist
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.
Even the law itself has this as its main drift and p…
The chapter division does not mark a break in the thought, for such key words as “righteousness,” “law,” and “faith” continue to appear, especially…
16th Century
Protestant
For the end of the law is Christ, etc. (Romans 10:4). The word completion, does not seem unsuitable to me in this pla…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For Christ is the end of the law The apostle here observes that to them which had they known, would have regulated t…
The Jews built on a false foundation and refused to come to Christ for free salvation by faith, and many people in every age do the same in various…
13th Century
Catholic
1. After showing how the Gentiles have been called to faith by the election of God’s grace, and also how some of the Jews (that is, a minori…
