What is sin for someone who is under grace? The question becomes surprisingly difficult because Scripture appears to say several things at once. John says sin is “the transgression of the law.” Paul says believers are “not under the law, but under grace.” Yet Paul also says, “whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” If the believer is no longer under law, what exactly does sin mean now?
The answer requires us to distinguish the root of sin from its outward expressions, and covenantal condemnation from real-world consequences. Grace does not make murder righteous, adultery harmless, theft loving, or injustice acceptable. But neither does a believer's failure place Christ back on the cross or return God's child to the old covenantal position where righteousness depends upon personal law keeping.
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” Romans 6:14 KJV
Under grace, righteousness has a different Source. Christ is the believer's righteousness. Sin can still be exposed, behavior can still be corrected, authorities can still punish evil, and consequences can still be severe. What has changed is the believer's standing before God and the covenantal system by which righteousness is established.
Scripture Gives More Than One Description of Sin
We should begin by allowing Scripture to define its own terms rather than choosing one verse and forcing every other passage beneath it.
John writes:
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” 1 John 3:4 KJV
Paul writes:
“...for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” Romans 14:23 KJV
And Jesus says concerning the Holy Ghost:
“Of sin, because they believe not on me.” John 16:9 KJV
These statements should not be made to compete. Together they suggest that sin can be seen at different depths. Law reveals transgression. Faith reveals the inward relationship of trust. Jesus takes us still deeper to unbelief concerning Himself.
Law describes the transgression. Faith exposes the inward source. Christ reveals unbelief at the root.
“Whatsoever Is Not of Faith Is Sin”
Romans 14:23 appears in a specific discussion about eating, conscience, and doubt. Paul is warning someone not to act against faith and conscience merely because another person feels free to act differently. We should preserve that immediate context.
But Paul's concluding statement is strikingly broad:
“...whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” Romans 14:23 KJV
This moves sin deeper than a list of prohibited external acts. An action can appear religious, disciplined, and morally impressive while arising from unbelief, fear, self-righteousness, or an attempt to establish the self independently from God.
That means sin cannot finally be understood only as “doing bad things.” The deeper question becomes:
The First Sin Began With Unbelief
This pattern appears before Sinai, Moses, or the written law. In Genesis, the serpent attacks what God said.
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.” Genesis 3:4 KJV
Before Adam and Eve physically perform the outward act, another testimony has entered consciousness. God's Word is questioned, another interpretation is believed, and action follows the changed agreement.
The outward transgression matters, but unbelief precedes it.
This makes Paul's statement in Romans 14 understandable. Sin at its deepest root is a departure from faith. The person stops receiving from God as Source and begins acting from another word, another source, another judgment, or the independent self.
Jesus Also Connects Sin With Unbelief
When Jesus explains the ministry of the Holy Ghost in John 16, He does not begin by presenting an endless catalog of human failures. He says:
“Of sin, because they believe not on me.” John 16:9 KJV
Again the root is unbelief concerning Christ.
This does not mean murder, theft, adultery, hatred, deception, and exploitation suddenly become acceptable. It means those outward expressions have a deeper spiritual root than mere rule breaking. Life has moved away from the truth and Life revealed in Christ.
But John Says Sin Is Transgression of the Law
This is where the apparent contradiction becomes important. If sin is transgression of law, and Paul says believers are not under law, someone might conclude that nothing a believer does can meaningfully be called sin.
But Paul himself prevents that conclusion.
Immediately after declaring grace, he asks:
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.” Romans 6:1–2 KJV
Paul clearly believes that people under grace can still express something he calls sin. Therefore “not under law” cannot mean that every action becomes morally neutral.
Sin Existed Before the Law of Moses
Romans 5 gives another important distinction.
“For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.” Romans 5:13 KJV
Notice what Paul does not say.
He does not say there was no sin before the law.
He says:
“sin was in the world.”
Then he distinguishes sin from its imputation through law.
This means law does not create every reality we call sin. Law identifies, exposes, defines, and brings transgression into account. The problem in humanity existed before Sinai.
The Law Gives Knowledge of Sin
Paul says:
“...for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Romans 3:20 KJV
The law functions like a clear boundary. It reveals what is crooked by placing the straight line beside it.
That does not make the law evil.
“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” Romans 7:12 KJV
The problem was never that righteousness was bad. The limitation was that law could expose the condition without giving the old man the Life required to become righteous.
What Does “Not Under the Law” Actually Mean?
When Paul says the believer is not under law, he is speaking about a covenantal relationship to righteousness. The law is no longer the system through which the believer establishes his standing before God.
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Romans 10:4 KJV
This does not mean God suddenly approves everything law once identified as destructive. It means righteousness has moved from human performance as source to Christ as Source.
Under law, the question is:
Have I performed sufficiently to stand righteous?
Under grace, the answer to righteousness is:
Christ.
Grace Changes Standing Before It Changes Behavior
This distinction is central.
Suppose a believer behaves terribly. Under law consciousness, the behavior immediately becomes a verdict about standing:
I failed.
Therefore I am unrighteous.
Therefore God rejects me.
Therefore I must recover righteousness through improved performance.
Grace allows God to say something else:
This behavior is destructive.
It does not agree with Christ.
It needs correction.
But Christ remains your righteousness while I correct it.
Under grace, correction does not require the believer to become condemned before behavior can change.
The Deepest Return to Sin Is a Return From Faith to Self
This is where Galatians becomes especially important. The Galatians were not being tempted primarily to become immoral criminals. They were being tempted to become more religious by returning to law as the basis of righteousness.
Paul writes:
“Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” Galatians 5:4 KJV
Notice the issue.
They are attempting to be “justified by the law.”
The fall from grace occurs when the source of righteousness moves away from Christ and back toward personal law keeping.
This is why one of the deepest forms of unbelief under grace can look extremely religious.
Falling From Grace Is Not Simply Committing a Bad Act
Paul does not say, “You became angry yesterday; therefore you fell from grace.” The Galatian context concerns the basis of justification. They were beginning in the Spirit and then attempting to become perfect through the flesh.
“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Galatians 3:3 KJV
That is the return to law consciousness.
God saved.
Christ justified.
The Spirit gave Life.
Then the believer begins thinking:
Now I must maintain righteousness independently through my own performance.
That movement itself departs from faith.
Can We Say That Is the Only Sin Under Grace?
We should be precise here.
There is a strong biblical case that unbelief is the root orientation of sin, and that returning from grace to self-righteous law consciousness is a profound expression of that unbelief. Romans 14 says whatever is not of faith is sin, and John 16 identifies unbelief concerning Christ at the root.
But Scripture continues using the word “sin” for destructive behavior even when speaking to believers under grace. Paul says not to continue in sin. He warns Christians against fornication, hatred, drunkenness, envy, violence, deceit, and other works of the flesh.
So it is more accurate to say:
Under grace, unbelief is the root of sin, while destructive actions are its possible expressions. Returning to law consciousness is especially dangerous because it abandons faith in Christ while appearing righteous.
The Root and the Fruit Should Not Be Confused
Imagine a tree.
The root is unbelief.
One branch may produce fear.
Another may produce greed.
Another may produce sexual immorality.
Another may produce hatred.
Another may produce religious pride.
And another may produce self-righteous law keeping.
The fruits look different, but the underlying departure is similar: life is being interpreted and acted upon apart from faith in God as Source.
A Religious Sin Can Look Better Than an Obvious Sin
This is one of the most challenging implications.
A murderer obviously appears unrighteous to almost everyone.
But a religious person may pray, fast, study Scripture, give money, and carefully avoid outward sins while secretly believing:
These works make me righteous before God.
Paul regards that as a severe Gospel error because Christ has been displaced as Source.
External respectability does not automatically equal faith.
So Does Grace Mean Behavior No Longer Matters?
No.
Paul asks the question directly:
“What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” Romans 6:15 KJV
Grace is not permission for destruction.
It is freedom from condemnation and self-righteousness so that Life can actually produce fruit.
If someone uses grace as an argument for cruelty, murder, exploitation, adultery, abuse, or dishonesty, he has misunderstood grace. Grace is not God becoming indifferent to what destroys people.
What If a Christian Murders Someone?
This extreme example makes the distinction easier to see.
Suppose a person genuinely in Christ murders another human being.
Grace does not mean:
Nothing happened.
Murder does not matter.
God approves.
The victim is irrelevant.
Society has no right to intervene.
Quite the opposite.
A human being has been killed. A family may be devastated. The murderer may be arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned, and subjected to whatever lawful sentence the governing authority imposes.
Not Under Moses Does Not Mean Not Under Civil Government
Paul, the same apostle who says Christians are not under law but under grace, also teaches believers to recognize civil authority.
“For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil...” Romans 13:3 KJV
He continues:
“For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain...” Romans 13:4 KJV
This destroys the idea that “not under law” means the Christian has become socially or legally untouchable.
Paul can simultaneously teach:
You are not under the law as the covenantal basis of righteousness.
And:
A governing authority may lawfully punish wrongdoing.
Those are different categories.
Civil Consequence Is Not the Same Thing as Eternal Condemnation
A Christian can be forgiven by God and still go to prison.
A Christian can be accepted in Christ and still owe restitution.
A Christian can possess no condemnation in Christ while another person correctly refuses to trust him after betrayal.
A Christian can be loved by the Father while experiencing painful consequences from foolish choices.
Grace does not erase cause and effect.
Grace changes the believer's covenantal standing.
God Does Not Become Impotent Under Grace
Sometimes people fear that if condemnation disappears, God has no remaining way to govern behavior. But this assumes condemnation was God's only power.
The New Covenant gives God far more than an external threat.
The Holy Ghost lives within.
Grace teaches.
The mind can be renewed.
Love can produce obedience.
Truth can expose error.
Civil authorities can restrain evil.
Consequences can teach wisdom.
The body of Christ can establish boundaries and correction.
God does not need eternal condemnation as His only behavioral management tool.
The Spirit Governs From Within
Paul writes:
“But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.” Galatians 5:18 KJV
Notice what replaces being under law.
Not chaos.
Being led of the Spirit.
Freedom from law as the source of righteousness does not mean freedom from God. It means a deeper relationship with God through indwelling Life.
The New Covenant Moves Government Inward
Under external law, the command stands outside the person and says what must be done. Under the New Covenant, God places His Spirit within and begins producing another kind of fruit.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Galatians 5:22–23 KJV
The goal is not lawlessness.
The goal is Life so deeply established that righteousness becomes fruit rather than an independent project of the flesh.
Love Can Govern What Law Forbids
Consider murder.
The law says:
Do not kill.
Love goes deeper.
Love does not merely avoid homicide because punishment is threatened. Love values the other person.
The external command is still true, but the Spirit seeks something deeper than restrained violence. He produces a nature whose fruit increasingly makes murder contrary to what is being expressed from within.
Jesus Took Sin Deeper Than External Compliance
This is why Jesus repeatedly moved from outward action to inward source. A person can technically avoid murder while cultivating hatred. He can technically avoid adultery while feeding lust.
Law can identify the boundary.
Christ reveals the heart.
Grace therefore does not lower righteousness below law. In many ways it exposes how shallow mere external compliance can be.
Grace Is Not Moral Relativism
Grace does not mean each believer invents his own definition of good and evil. God remains God. Love remains love. Evil remains destructive.
The change is not in God's nature.
The change is in the believer's relationship to righteousness.
Under law consciousness:
I obey so that I can become righteous.
Under grace:
Christ is my righteousness, and His Life increasingly produces another way of living.
Why Condemnation Actually Strengthens Sin
Paul makes a surprising connection between sin and law.
“The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.” 1 Corinthians 15:56 KJV
This helps explain why returning believers to condemnation is not God's superior method of producing holiness. Law exposes sin, but flesh can use the law as another environment for fear, rebellion, pride, and self-righteousness.
The answer is not more condemnation.
The answer is Christ.
Sin Shall Not Have Dominion Because You Are Under Grace
Romans 6:14 is sometimes read as though Paul said grace merely excuses sin after it dominates the believer. But his actual statement is stronger.
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” Romans 6:14 KJV
Grace is presented as the environment in which sin loses dominion.
That means returning to law consciousness in order to defeat sin can actually reverse Paul's logic. He does not say sin loses dominion because you return under law.
He says the opposite.
The Most Dangerous Sin May Look Like Righteousness
This is why Galatians is so important.
A believer can abandon faith not only through obvious immorality but through religious self-establishment.
The thought becomes:
Christ began this, but I must complete it.
Grace saved me, but my performance keeps me righteous.
The Spirit gave me Life, but the flesh will perfect it.
Jesus is my Saviour, but my record determines whether I remain accepted.
That is precisely the movement Paul attacks.
Anything Not of Faith Includes Religious Self-Righteousness
This makes Romans 14:23 much more searching than a simple catalog of prohibited actions.
Something can look religious and still not be of faith.
A person can pray from fear.
Give from an attempt to purchase blessing.
Fast to establish superiority.
Study Scripture to prove worthiness.
Repent in order to convince God to accept him again.
Outwardly these actions may appear holy.
Inwardly the source has returned to self.
Sin Under Grace Is Therefore a Source Problem
At the deepest level, sin under grace is not simply failing to satisfy an external list. It is the movement away from faith, away from receiving from God as Source, and back toward the independent self.
Sometimes that produces obviously destructive behavior.
Sometimes it produces religious pride.
Sometimes it produces condemnation.
Sometimes it produces fear.
Sometimes it produces the attempt to establish righteousness through law.
The expressions differ, but faith has been displaced.
The deepest question is not merely, “Which rule did I break?” It is, “Where did I stop trusting God and begin living from another source?”
What Happens When a Believer Sins?
The answer under grace should not be panic.
Do not immediately rebuild the old courtroom.
Do not conclude that Christ has ceased being righteousness.
Do not make failure stronger than resurrection.
Bring what happened into the light.
Tell the truth.
Accept responsibility.
Make restitution where appropriate.
Submit to legitimate consequences.
Allow God to reveal the unbelief, fear, wound, desire, or false source beneath the action.
Then repent by changing agreement toward truth.
Grace Lets Correction Become Honest
Under condemnation, admitting wrong is terrifying because identity depends upon performance. The person either hides the failure or becomes consumed by shame.
Under grace, Christ remains the foundation. This makes honest correction possible.
I can say:
“What I did was wrong.”
without saying:
“Therefore everything God said about me in Christ is now false.”
That distinction is not permission to sin.
It is the environment where sin can finally be brought into the light without hiding.
Consequences Can Correct Without Condemning
A child may be loved completely and still lose a privilege after irresponsible behavior. A worker may be forgiven personally and still lose employment because trust was violated. A criminal may genuinely repent and still serve a lawful sentence.
Consequences answer the temporal effects of actions.
Condemnation answers standing before God.
These should not be confused.
If every painful consequence is interpreted as God revoking sonship, the believer returns to bondage and fear.
Grace Does Not Cancel Justice
This becomes especially important when sin harms another person. Grace for the offender cannot be used to silence justice for the victim.
If someone steals, grace does not require the victim to call theft harmless.
If someone abuses another person, forgiveness does not require the removal of boundaries.
If someone murders, the family is not required to pretend no crime occurred because the murderer claims Christ.
God can love, forgive, correct, and restore while civil justice still performs its proper function.
Justice and Grace Are Not Enemies
Grace concerns what God provides that man cannot establish for himself.
Justice concerns right order, truth, accountability, protection, and the consequences of actions.
Christ does not make justice unnecessary. He prevents justice from becoming another self-salvation system by becoming righteousness Himself.
The civil court may ask:
Did you commit the crime?
The Gospel asks another question:
Where does righteousness before God come from?
Those courts are not identical.
A Human Judge Cannot Decide Your Identity in Christ
A judge may correctly sentence a believer to prison.
The sentence may be entirely just.
But the judge does not possess authority to overturn the resurrection, undo the new creation, or become the source of the believer's righteousness before God.
Likewise, grace does not give the believer authority to ignore the judge.
Different forms of government are operating in different spheres.
The Holy Ghost Can Correct Without Accusing
The Spirit can expose hatred without saying, “God hates you.”
He can expose dishonesty without saying, “You are forever false.”
He can expose fear without saying, “You are abandoned.”
He can expose sexual disorder without saying, “You are filthy beyond grace.”
He can expose self-righteousness without saying, “Now save yourself better.”
Correction brings behavior and belief into the light so that they can agree with Christ.
What About First John Saying the Born of God Does Not Sin?
First John contains an important apparent tension.
John says:
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” 1 John 1:8 KJV
Yet later:
“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him...” 1 John 3:9 KJV
We should not erase either statement.
The identity distinction helps. What is born of God is the new creation whose Life is sourced in Christ. Yet a babe in Christ can still think carnally, forget who he is, act from fear, or temporarily return to old patterns of unbelief.
Failure does not require redefining the new creation as Adam again.
The Solution to Sin Is Not Rebuilding the Old Identity
When a believer fails, condemnation says:
See? The old you was the real you all along.
Grace says:
This expression does not agree with the Life God has given you.
That is a completely different correction.
One uses behavior to recreate Adamic identity.
The other uses truth to restore conscious agreement with Christ.
Repentance Under Grace Now Makes Sense
This connects directly to repentance.
If sin at its root is unbelief, repentance is not merely feeling bad about an external act. Repentance changes the mind where it departed from truth.
Perhaps the person murdered because hatred became stronger than love.
Perhaps he stole because scarcity became more believable than God as Source.
Perhaps he manipulated because control became more believable than trust.
Perhaps he returned to legalism because his own performance became more believable than Christ's righteousness.
Grace brings the root into the light.
Law Can Restrain What Grace Intends to Heal
This does not make external law unnecessary in society. Human government often must restrain behavior because societies cannot wait for every person's mind to become spiritually renewed before protecting innocent people.
A prison can restrain a murderer.
It cannot create Christ within him.
A fine can discourage theft.
It cannot produce generosity from the Spirit.
A court can establish boundaries.
It cannot create resurrection Life.
Law can restrain.
Grace transforms.
This Is Why Both Government and Grace Can Exist Together
There is no contradiction in saying:
The Christian is not under Mosaic law as the covenantal source of righteousness.
The Christian should obey legitimate civil law.
Wrongdoing can produce temporal consequences.
God can correct His child.
And there is no condemnation in Christ.
Those statements operate at different levels and can all remain true.
A Simple Way to Distinguish the Categories
Defines, exposes, restrains, and establishes boundaries. It can reveal transgression but cannot create resurrection Life.
Receives from God as Source. Romans says whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Provides in Christ what the old man could never establish through personal performance.
What Sin Under Grace Is Not
It is not permission to harm people.
Grace does not redefine murder, abuse, theft, adultery, deception, or exploitation as love.
It is not immunity from consequences.
A believer can be forgiven and still face criminal, financial, relational, professional, or physical consequences.
It is not returning to Mosaic law for righteousness.
Paul explicitly says the believer is not under law but under grace.
It is not a reason to condemn yourself.
Correction can occur while Christ remains righteousness and Romans 8:1 remains true.
It is not merely a list of outward acts.
Romans 14:23 and John 16:9 take us beneath behavior to faith and unbelief.
What Sin Under Grace Reveals
Where did faith give way?
What became more believable than God?
Where did another source replace Christ?
Did fear, approval, scarcity, control, desire, pride, or self-righteousness become the governing source?
What behavior grew from that belief?
The external fruit still matters because destructive beliefs produce destructive consequences.
What truth corrects the root?
Repentance changes agreement where the mind departed from what God has revealed.
What responsibility remains?
Grace does not prevent apology, restitution, boundaries, civil judgment, or practical correction.
Where does righteousness remain?
In Christ, not in your successful performance after the failure.
The Greatest Danger Is Returning the Source to Yourself
The Gospel continually returns Source to God.
God saves.
Christ is righteousness.
The Spirit gives Life.
Grace supplies.
Faith receives.
Fruit follows.
Sin reverses that movement whenever the self begins functioning independently again.
This can happen through obvious rebellion.
It can also happen through religious striving.
Law Consciousness Can Be Sinful While Looking Holy
A believer who says, “Christ is not enough; my performance must complete my righteousness,” may outwardly appear far more moral than someone trapped in a visible addiction. Yet the underlying source has moved away from faith.
This is why Paul becomes so severe with the Galatians.
Their error was not excessive grace.
It was abandoning grace for self-righteousness.
Falling From Grace Means Leaving the Ground of Grace
Galatians 5:4 becomes much clearer when read this way. Falling from grace is not grace losing its grip because someone stumbled. It is the mind returning to a system in which righteousness must again be established by law.
The person moves from:
Christ is my righteousness.
to:
My law keeping determines my righteousness.
That is a movement from faith toward self.
And whatever is not of faith is sin.
Grace Does Not Need Sin to Become Meaningless
Some fear that if sin does not threaten the believer with immediate eternal condemnation, the word loses all meaning.
But sin remains destructive even without becoming stronger than Christ.
Hatred damages relationships.
Lies destroy trust.
Greed exploits.
Lust can turn people into objects.
Violence destroys bodies.
Pride blinds.
Fear enslaves.
Self-righteousness hides the sufficiency of Christ.
Grace does not need eternal rejection to explain why these things are contrary to Life.
Sin Is Contrary to Life Because Christ Is Life
This gives us a better measure than merely asking how close we can get to breaking a rule without technically crossing it.
Jesus says:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life...” John 14:6 KJV
Sin moves away from truth, faith, love, and Life.
Grace does not merely forgive that movement.
Grace restores the person to the Source from whom another kind of life can flow.
The Answer to Sin Under Grace Is Christ
The law can tell you what happened.
The civil court may determine what consequence is appropriate.
Another person may establish a necessary boundary.
Your own mind may need repentance.
But none of those becomes the source of righteousness.
The answer remains Christ.
“But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” 1 Corinthians 1:30 KJV
So What Is Sin Under Grace?
Sin under grace cannot be reduced either to “breaking rules” or to “nothing matters anymore.” Scripture gives a more complete picture.
Sin is lawlessness and transgression. Law exposes it. But the problem existed before Sinai, and Paul takes us beneath the external act by saying whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Jesus identifies unbelief concerning Himself at the root.
The believer is no longer under law as the covenantal source of righteousness. Christ is righteousness. That means failure does not automatically relocate the believer into condemnation or force him to rebuild standing through performance.
Yet grace does not abolish truth, correction, justice, consequences, or moral reality. Murder remains destructive. Theft remains unjust. Abuse remains evil. Civil governments may punish wrongdoing, relationships may require boundaries, and God can correct behavior without making condemnation the mechanism of change.
The deepest issue of sin under grace is a departure from faith. Sometimes that departure produces obviously destructive behavior; sometimes it produces fear, pride, control, or unbelief; and sometimes it produces something far more religious: an attempt to leave Christ as righteousness and return to law as the means of establishing righteousness. Paul calls that falling from grace. Grace does not mean the believer has escaped all government, consequence, or correction. It means Christ has become the foundation of standing before God. Law can expose, society can restrain, authorities can punish wrongdoing, and consequences can teach, but none of those can become the believer's righteousness. Under grace, the question after failure is therefore not, “How do I condemn myself enough to become righteous again?” It is, “Where did I leave faith, what false source did I trust, what responsibility now belongs to me, and what does Christ reveal as true?” Sin can be corrected without becoming identity. Justice can operate without replacing grace. And the believer can return to faith because righteousness never began in the self. It began and remains in Christ.
The next question is why returning to law can feel so righteous even when it quietly moves the believer's confidence away from Christ. Continue with The Accuser Wants You Back Under Law: Why Christ, Not Your Performance, Is Your Righteousness.