Obeying The Law

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

for not the hearers of the law <FI>are<Fi> righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --

Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest, — read the full passage →

Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'

and he said to them, `Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

the law, then, <FI>is<Fi> against the promises of God? --let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

they say to him, `Caesar's;' then saith he to them, `Render therefore the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil; — read the full passage →

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as <FI>in<Fi> hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

and having brought them, they set <FI>them<Fi> in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them, — read the full passage →

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

render, therefore, to all <FI>their<Fi> dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.

for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse, — read the full passage →

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,

Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer <FI>is<Fi> an abomination.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten <FI>them<Fi> , they commanded <FI>them<Fi> not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go; — read the full passage →

The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident. — read the full passage →

`And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth <FI>is<Fi> Mine;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

for forty years have the sons of Israel gone in the wilderness, till all the nation of the men of war who are coming out of Egypt, who hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah hath sworn not to show them the land which Jehovah sware to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey, are consumed;

`Thou dost not murder. — read the full passage →

With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

for because of this also pay ye tribute; for servants of God they are, on this very thing attending continually;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;

And they having come to Capernaum, those receiving the didrachms came near to Peter, and said, `Your teacher--doth he not pay the didrachms?' He saith, `Yes.' — read the full passage →

And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

What, then, shall we say? the law <FI>is<Fi> sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works--who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,

we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations, — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,