The purpose of the law

Romans 3:20 NLT

(20) For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.

If we judge others by the law then it is clear we do not know the law, thereby voiding our own prosecution. No the law is there first to point us to our own need for Jesus. After coming to Jesus as Lord and in humility laying down our lives and the control we believe we have over it to His Lordship then those we were so quick to judge before are seen differently because we see them through the eyes of our Savior; no longer wanting to condemn but instead wanting to share the life we have found in Christ. Condemnation turns to compassion and contempt turns to serving and stonewalling turns into walking with that person until we are able to see where they are coming from, no longer do we take secondhand knowledge about a person in order to cast them out of the gates but instead we grow relationship and trust by speaking life into their very souls. In this way we become Christ-like, followers of Christ Jesus faithfully representing the love we have been shown, a love we could not earn to pay a price we could not pay.

Romans 3:25-26 NLT

(25) For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed His life, shedding His blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when He held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,

(26) for He was looking ahead and including them in what He would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate His righteousness, for He Himself is fair and just, and He declares sinners to be right in His sight when they believe in Jesus.