Old Testament Law

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

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.

“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 →

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

Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, 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, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

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.”

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

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

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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;

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

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

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 before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. — read the full passage →

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

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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

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

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.

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

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, 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 were realized through Jesus Christ.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits 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 do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

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 →

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. — read the full passage →

A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

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

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an 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 Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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

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

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

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

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.

At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! 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 exceedingly sinful.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘neither shall there come upon you a garment made of two kinds of material.

“‘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.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds”, as of many, but as of one, “To your seed”, which is Christ.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

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

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous 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 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;

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

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

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.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

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

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

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

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

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

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

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

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 fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit 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 finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found;

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

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

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,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — 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 →