Bible Verses About Law

“So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.”

“What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

“For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

“But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.”

“Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.”

“For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.”

“The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.”

“Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”

“For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.”

“Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.”

“I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.”

“But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will be blessed in what he does.”

“This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.”

“Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God, and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.”

“Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.”

“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.”

“But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”

“So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”

“You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.”

“With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.”

“For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.”

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.”

“Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.”

“But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD 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.”

“Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.”

“Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.”

“We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.”

“Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘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 mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” “Right, Teacher,” the scribe replied. “You have stated correctly that God is One and there is no other but Him, and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

“But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children — to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.”

“I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.”

“These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”

“For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.”

“So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

“Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”

“All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.”

“If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”

“And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?”

“But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.”

“Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.”

“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.”

“We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners” know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.”

“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.’”

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.”

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.”

“So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them”

“Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.”

“Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”