Bible Verses about 'Law'
- All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
- For “no human being will be justified in his sight” by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
- What then should we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
- The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart. - Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
- Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
- Happy are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the Lord. - Great peace have those who love your law;
nothing can make them stumble. - What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
- When one will not listen to the law,
even one's prayers are an abomination. - For Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
- For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
- For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
- Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
- We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.
- But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.
- In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
- Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
- I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
- You who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
- But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction.
- The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the decrees of the Lord are sure,
making wise the simple. - Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
- Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?
- Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
- For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.
- By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
- Let it be known to you therefore, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you; by this Jesus everyone who believes is set free from all those sins from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
- The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”
- And keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.
- Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.
- This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful.
- This means understanding that the law is laid down not for the innocent but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers, fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
- My child, keep your father's commandment,
and do not forsake your mother's teaching. - Take good care to observe the commandment and instruction that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, and to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- My child, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments;
for length of days and years of life
and abundant welfare they will give you. - How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.
- For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
- If we diligently observe this entire commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, we will be in the right.
- There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then, are you to judge your neighbor?
- See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised.
- But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted through better promises.
- And ‘to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love one's neighbor as oneself,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.” Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
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