Breaking The Law

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? — read the full passage →

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme; — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?” — read the full passage →

Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

“You shall not steal.

“You shall not murder. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? — read the full passage →

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”