Law

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

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.”

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple. — read the full passage →

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

“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 →

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

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

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

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

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

for by grace you have 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 Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to 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 fleshly, sold under sin.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

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

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →

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

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children; — read the full passage →

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under 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. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

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.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

“‘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.

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

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

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;

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.”

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

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

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

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 →

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

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

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, — read the full passage →

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — 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 →

“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

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.

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.”

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

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 →

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