Law

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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

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

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.

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

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

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

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

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

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

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

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto 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 Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

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

I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

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

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

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor 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, ye will keep my commandments.

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

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon 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.

ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

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

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

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.

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

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

But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the 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 nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

This isthe end of the matter; all hath been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

Great peace have they that love thy law; And they have no occasion of stumbling.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh 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 make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

for he is a 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 a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil.

Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.

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

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah 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 have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

and by him every one that believeth is 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 they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah.

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

I have chosen the way of faithfulness: Thine ordinances have I set before me.

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

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

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

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

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

for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

And he said unto them, Then render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.

in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

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

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

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

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

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might 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 in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things. — read the full passage →

The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it.

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

Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men:

Wherefore ye must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

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

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

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →

Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not 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, even statutes and ordinances.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

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 neighbor as thyself.

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal 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.