Topic

Following Laws

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1 Peter 2:13–17

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

Romans 13:1–7

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 →

Acts 5:29

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

Romans 13:2

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

Galatians 5:22–23

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

Romans 13:1

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.

Revelation 1:1

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,

Titus 3:1

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

Romans 3:20

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

James 1:25

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Ezekiel 36:27

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

Psalms 119:2

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:6

You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

1 John 3:4

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Hebrews 13:20–21

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, — read the full passage →

Romans 13:1–14

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 →

Psalms 119:60–62

I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 4:2

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Deuteronomy 4:1–13:18

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:2

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Romans 13:10

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

Romans 6:2

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Ezekiel 20:19–20

I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them; — read the full passage →

Psalms 119:30

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

Psalms 119:1–130:8

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 30:16

For I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Romans 2:13

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

Matthew 5:1–19:30

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Micah 6:8

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?

Psalms 119:111–112

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. — read the full passage →

Psalms 119:7

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

Psalms 119:1–136:26

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

1 Kings 2:3

and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

1 Kings 2:2

“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

Joshua 1:8

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Deuteronomy 6:1–17:20

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

Genesis 26:4–5

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, — read the full passage →

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 5:14

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 3:31

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

Romans 2:1–29

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 →

John 15:10

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Luke 16:17

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

Mark 12:31

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

Proverbs 19:16

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

Psalms 119:165

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

Psalms 119:160

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

Psalms 119:14

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Psalms 119:10

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Psalms 119:1

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

1 John 3:21–22

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:14

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

1 Corinthians 10:23

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

Romans 13:8

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

Romans 13:1–5

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 →

Romans 6:15

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

John 15:12

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

John 15:2

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Matthew 22:39

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 7:12

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

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Deuteronomy 5:29

Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

James 4:12

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

Galatians 3:1–5:26

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

Galatians 2:21

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

1 Corinthians 6:1–14:40

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Romans 13:1–2

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 →

Romans 10:1–14:23

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

Romans 8:1–2

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. — read the full passage →

Romans 6:1–14:23

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

Romans 2:12

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

Romans 2:1–12:21

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 →

Acts 13:38–39

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, — read the full passage →

John 14:21–22

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.” — read the full passage →

John 14:1–15:27

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

John 4:21–22

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. — read the full passage →

John 3:24

For John was not yet thrown into prison.

John 3:21–22

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.” — read the full passage →

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

John 3:1–11:57

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

John 3:1–4:54

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Luke 10:27

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Luke 10:2

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Matthew 19:19

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Matthew 19:18–19

He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:2

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

Matthew 7:2

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Matthew 7:1–2

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:1–17:27

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:1–18:35

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Micah 6:2

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

Psalms 19:7

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

Romans 13:4

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.

Amos 5:2

“The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”

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