The Laws Of The Land

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

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

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

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,

Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” — read the full passage →

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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

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 →

For I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them, — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. — read the full passage →

You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

“‘If you 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 your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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

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

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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?

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

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 →

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children; — read the full passage →

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

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

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

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

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

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.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, — read the full passage →

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

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

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 →

“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

“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,

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

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

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. — read the full passage →

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — 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. — read the full passage →

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

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

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

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.