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Here is where the train goes off the track. There are TWO laws referenced in Scripture. There are the 10 Commandments which are part of the New Covenant Jer.31 are written on our heart and then there are the 613 mitzvot(laws) of Moses which were carried on the outside of the Ark of the Covenant, showing there are 2 laws. The 10 Commandments were carried inside the Ark.

It was the law of Moses that was nailed to the Cross and made null and void...not the Ten Commandments. You have to differentiate between the two laws when interpreting Scripture.

..and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.

The Messiah is the Redeemer. He is the Law - the one who holds the keys to the jail. Nobody gets past him. Noone goes in, noone goes out without his authority.

So in a flipped over way, the Law does indeed save, because he is the Law. Those who are forgiven much, love much. There is everything to love about him for what he did. Well not for the individual benefit of the sacrifice per se, but for the soul behind the actions, the one who was willing to die for his friends. Same way people should know that it is the tree that provides the shade from the hot summer sun, not the shadow itself. No tree, no shade.

As it is axiomatic that laws die with the deceased, a soul is not a soul unless it is alive. Now if people would be grateful for his raising of the dead to life, they'd love others as they were loved by God and by him. Somehow that simple message got trampled to death on the doctrinal battlegrounds of perceived wisdom..

Jer 31

32. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the Lord, I will put my Torah in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people:
33. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will no longer remember their sin:

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord

There goes the religion forum!

For what is easier, to say, 'Know the Lord', or to say 'I love you'?
But that you may know the Lord, say, "I love you."

Easy to out a liar with that one, because love doesn't DO what many religion forum posters do to each other on a daily dysfunctional basis.

A ‘believer’ will NOT commit murder, period. And so long as any are still in a flesh body, a demonstration of belief is to keep the Ten Commandments. Do not think so, well, it is plainly Written at the end of the book who will be saved and who will NOT be saved. Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that DO His commandments, that they may have ‘right’ to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

The ‘law’ nailed to the Cross was the ‘blood’ ordinances and sacrifices. Christ became the final perfect ‘blood’ sacrifice.

Grace is unmerited favor, meaning it does NOT come from the law. At the time of Paul’s writings all manner of rituals were required... and called the ‘law’. Paul had to repeatedly teach the milk drinkers basic Christianity and even had a few things to say about those who could not ‘see’ beyond the ‘are you saved’ lingo.