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If observing the Jewish laws cannot justify us, why should we still obey the Ten Commandments and other Old Testament laws?

We know that Paul was not saying the law is bad because in another letter he wrote, “the Law is holy”. Instead, he is saying that the law can never make us acceptable to God. The law still had an important role to play in the life of a Christian.

The law:

(1) guards us from sin by giving us standards for behavior;

(2) convicts us of sin, leaving us the opportunity to ask for God’s forgiveness; drives us to trust in the sufficiency of Christ, because we can never keep the Ten Commandments perfectly.

The law cannot possible save us. But after we have become Christians, it can guide us to live as God requires.

Galatians 2:15-16
“We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles 16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.