Law

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

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

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. — read the full passage →

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. — read the full passage →

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

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

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. — read the full passage →

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: — read the full passage →

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; — read the full passage →

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which be Cesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.

In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. — read the full passage →

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, — read the full passage →

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, — read the full passage →

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. — read the full passage →

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.