Mans Law

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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.”

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?

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,

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

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

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

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

“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 →

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.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 →

or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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

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

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

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.

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

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

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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

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

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

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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.

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

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

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them, — 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.

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.

God spoke all these words, saying, — 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 →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

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

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

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

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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;

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

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

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

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

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 →

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. — read the full passage →

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — 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,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

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

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

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 I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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.

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

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

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

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; — read the full passage →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. — read the full passage →

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