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Bible verses by topic / Law

Observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go.

Book: Old Testament / 1 Kings
Topics: law, blessing, obedience
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But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Book: Old Testament / Amos
Topics: law, righteousness
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But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Book: Old Testament / Joshua
Topics: law, heart, serving, soul
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For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

Book: New Testament / 1 John
Topics: law, love, neighbor
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What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!

Book: New Testament / Romans
Topics: law, freedom, grace, mercy, sin
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Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.

Topics: law, greed, heart, selfishness
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Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

Book: Old Testament / Deuteronomy
Topics: law, covenant, faithfulness, God, promises, reliability
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

Topics: law, awe, wisdom, worship
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I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.

Book: Old Testament / Job
Topics: law, obedience, speaking, Word of God
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Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.

Book: New Testament / John
Topics: law, Father, love
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And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

Book: New Testament / 1 John
Topics: law, friendship, love
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Book: New Testament / Galatians
Topics: law, blessing, gentleness, goodness, self-control, Spirit
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My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

Book: New Testament / John
Topics: law, Jesus, love
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We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.

Book: Old Testament / Daniel
Topics: law, confession, sin
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Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.

Book: Old Testament / Isaiah
Topics: law, desires, righteousness
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Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

Book: New Testament / Romans
Topics: law, faith, righteousness
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If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.

Book: Old Testament / Leviticus
Topics: law, blessing, Fruitfulness, harvest, obedience
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“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.

Book: New Testament / 1 Corinthians
Topics: law, food, goodness, righteousness
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I am the Lord your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.

Book: Old Testament / Ezekiel
Topics: law, obedience, sabbath
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Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord.

Topics: law, Blameless, life, righteousness
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In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Book: New Testament / Hebrews
Topics: law, blood, Forgiveness, sin
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All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

Book: New Testament / Romans
Topics: law, hell, judgment, punishment, sin
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All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.

Topics: law, reliability, Word of God
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Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.

Topics: law, awe, love
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The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Book: Old Testament / Exodus
Topics: law, obedience, receiving
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Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Book: New Testament / Matthew
Topics: law, heaven, Kingdom, learning, obedience
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You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

Book: Old Testament / Deuteronomy
Topics: law, punishment
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The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Book: New Testament / 1 Corinthians
Topics: law, idols, sin
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Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.

Book: Old Testament / Proverbs
Topics: law, Eternal life, sin
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And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Book: Old Testament / Ezekiel
Topics: law, following, Holy Spirit, Spirit
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Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

Book: Old Testament / Deuteronomy
Topics: law, following, obedience
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The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Book: New Testament / Romans
Topics: law, love, neighbor
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The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin.

Book: Old Testament / Proverbs
Topics: law, heart, wisdom
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I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.

Topics: law, following, obedience
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Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

Book: New Testament / 1 John
Topics: law, righteousness, sin
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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Book: New Testament / Romans
Topics: law, freedom, hell, judgment, punishment, Redeemer
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Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.

Book: New Testament / 1 John
Topics: law, obedience, trust
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So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?

Book: New Testament / Galatians
Topics: law, listening, Spirit
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He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Book: New Testament / Luke
Topics: law, love, obedience
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Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Book: New Testament / Hebrews
Topics: law, blessing, covenant, following, peace, Resurrection
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I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.

Topics: law, heart, obedience
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Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

Book: New Testament / Matthew
Topics: law, judgment
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We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

Book: New Testament / 1 Timothy
Topics: law, lying, sexuality, sin, slavery
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If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.

Book: Old Testament / Leviticus
Topics: law, punishment, sin
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I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

Topics: law, life
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And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.

Book: Old Testament / Deuteronomy
Topics: law, obedience, righteousness
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But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.

Book: Old Testament / Ezekiel
Topics: law, conversion, obedience, sin
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I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.

Topics: law, freedom, seeking
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I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!

Book: New Testament / Galatians
Topics: law, grace, Jesus, righteousness, Salvation
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These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Book: Old Testament / Deuteronomy
Topics: law, children, family
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