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Summary Of The Law
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One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — 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 →
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
“‘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.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
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;
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
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.”
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
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.
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?
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, — read the full passage →
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you; you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. — read the full passage →
Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →
God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments 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.
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
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.
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 →
One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
“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 →
Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. — read the full passage →
You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
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 →
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →
But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →
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.” — 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.
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: — read the full passage →
At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
“You shall not commit adultery.
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, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?”
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. — read the full passage →
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — 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.
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
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 →
At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. — read the full passage →
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”
“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.
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →
One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. — read the full passage →
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.
In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. — read the full passage →
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
Blessed are those who do his commandments,that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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