Summary Of The Law

And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? — read the full passage →

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

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

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

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

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, — read the full passage →

That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. — read the full passage →

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: — read the full passage →

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

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

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

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. — read the full passage →

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

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

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. — read the full passage →

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; — read the full passage →

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. — read the full passage →

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

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

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

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; — read the full passage →

At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

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

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. — read the full passage →

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

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

At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. — read the full passage →

And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

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

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? — read the full passage →

Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, — read the full passage →

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. — read the full passage →

And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

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

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.