Old Testament Law

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

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.

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

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

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: — read the full passage →

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

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

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:

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

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

And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

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;

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

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

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

But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

For the law having a shadow of the goodthingsto come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

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

And certain men came down from Judæa and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

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.

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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

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

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.

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

while Paul said in his defence, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Cæsar, have I sinned at all.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

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 →

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished. — read the full passage →

A man that hath set at nought Moses’ law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:

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

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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.

Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

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

Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, — read the full passage →

Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever. ש SHIN.

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.

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.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; — read the full passage →

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? — read the full passage →

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.

Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: — read the full passage →

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,

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

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

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition, — read the full passage →

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

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

And when they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. — read the full passage →

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

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;

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — 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 →