The Laws Of The Land

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; — read the full passage →

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

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:

Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cesar, or not? — read the full passage →

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. — read the full passage →

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

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

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. — read the full passage →

In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; — read the full passage →

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

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.

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.

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

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

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

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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?

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

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 →

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

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; — read the full passage →

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

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

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

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. — read the full passage →

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

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

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, — read the full passage →

And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

They say unto him, Cesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: — read the full passage →

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

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 →

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

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;

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, — read the full passage →

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

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. — read the full passage →

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

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 →

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

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

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. — read the full passage →

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.