What does the Bible say about man’s ability to fulfil the Law of God?  It says:  “Cursed is he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them” (Deut. 27, 26) ; “Whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (Jas. 2, 10) ; “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” (Rom. 8, 38); “The Law worketh wrath,” that is, by convincing man that he has not fulfilled it and never will fulfil it, it rouses man’s anger against God who has laid this unattainable Law upon him (Rom. 4, 15).

What does the Bible say about the relation of Christ to the Law and to sin?  It says:  “God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law, that He might redeem them that were under the Law” (Gal. 4, 4); “Christ is the end of the Law ’for righteousness to every one that believeth” (Rom. 10, 4); “God hath made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteous of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5, 21); “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law; being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree” (Gal. 3, 13).

What does the Bible say about faith without works as a means of justification?  It says:  “We conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the Law” (Rom. 3, 28); “To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness” (Rom. 4, 5); “I rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, though I might also have confidence in the flesh.  If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:  circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the Law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the Church; touching the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless. [The speaker is the apostle Paul.] But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.  Yea, doubtless; and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith” (Phil. 3, 3-9) ; “If by grace, then is it no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace.  But if it be of works, then is it no more grace; otherwise work is no more work” (Rom. 11, 6). (The Catholic Bible omits the last half of this text.)