Bible verses by topic / Law
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
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.
I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.
He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.
And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
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.
But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
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.
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.
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.
Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord.
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
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.
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord.
I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.
If you love me, keep my commands.
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.
If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many.
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.
I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.
Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
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.