We are the Bride of Christ! All of our efforts to please God and to be accepted by Him, either by trying to keep his law, or by the performance of our own good works, has always caused us to come short! God's word says that "The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law." (1 Corinthians 15:56) Only Jesus, being the very Son of God, could keep and fulfill the law perfectly! And He did so on our behalf! God's word says, "And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." (Colossians 2:13-14) "Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God." (Romans 7:4)