There are some who believe that by their obedience they gain brownie points with God, and give themselves a "better chance" of making it into heaven. We all see these people, and I agree, it is sad. But what is even more sad is that there are so many who think that grace and law have to be at war with each other. They seem incapable of seeing that grace, while granting us something we don't deserve, includes the power and capacity to obey the law. Thus in that sense, grace and law, far from being at enmity with one another, complement one another.
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Just for you and your "obedience".
1Ti_1:9 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,
Why because
Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
and who are the righteous
1Jn_2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
and the law
Psa 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
because
Rom_8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Gal_2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
As I have said repeatedly. all the law does and will ever do is kill people.
Rom_3:19 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.
And you still want the law??
Jas_2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Faith is our obedience
Gal_2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ
One more
Act_15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words,
subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
If you choose to keep the law, that is your choice, it required "you" to pay for breaking it, your blood, since by keeping it you have denied His sacrifice.
Our righteousness is only by Christ if we are in Him, our obedience is by faith, not by works, for our works are dead.