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100 Bible Verses about Gods Law

1 John 3:4 ESV / 147 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Romans 3:20 ESV / 135 helpful votes

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:12 ESV / 133 helpful votes

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Romans 7:7 ESV / 129 helpful votes

What then shall 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. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 3:31 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 95 helpful votes

“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. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 87 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

James 1:25 ESV / 85 helpful votes

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Romans 13:1 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 83 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:4 ESV / 83 helpful votes

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

John 14:15 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 83 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Amos 5:24 ESV / 82 helpful votes

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

James 2:10 ESV / 79 helpful votes

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 76 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 76 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 75 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 75 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 71 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Luke 4:16 ESV / 71 helpful votes

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.

1 John 2:4 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

Romans 13:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 69 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:28 ESV / 67 helpful votes

For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

1 John 3:21-22 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 65 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Romans 6:15 ESV / 64 helpful votes

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

Romans 2:13 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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

John 1:17 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 62 helpful votes

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

John 15:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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

Acts 5:32 ESV / 61 helpful votes

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

John 15:10 ESV / 61 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. ...

Romans 7:4 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 58 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 58 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Romans 7:6 ESV / 57 helpful votes

But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 57 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Deuteronomy 10:12-13 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk 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, which I am commanding you today for your good?

Psalm 119:30 ESV / 55 helpful votes

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.

Psalm 103:17-18 ESV / 55 helpful votes

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 55 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Romans 6:14 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Luke 16:17 ESV / 54 helpful votes

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.

Psalm 119:1 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!

Deuteronomy 30:16 ESV / 54 helpful votes

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

1 Timothy 1:8-10 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 53 helpful votes

“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.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 53 helpful votes

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Romans 7:14 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

Acts 13:39 ESV / 52 helpful votes

And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Psalm 19:7-9 ESV / 52 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.

1 John 4:21 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Titus 3:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 49 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Titus 3:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...

Acts 7:53 ESV / 46 helpful votes

You who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”

Isaiah 33:22 ESV / 46 helpful votes

For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our lawgiver; the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 3:19 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Psalm 119:172 ESV / 44 helpful votes

My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.

1 Peter 2:13 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,

Galatians 5:18 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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

Galatians 2:15-16 ESV / 43 helpful votes

We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 43 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Ephesians 2:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

Romans 4:15 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 39 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Luke 20:25 ESV / 38 helpful votes

He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

Galatians 3:11 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Acts 5:27-29 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Acts 18:21 ESV / 31 helpful votes

But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.

Exodus 12:49 ESV / 31 helpful votes

There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”

Romans 6:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes

We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

Acts 24:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

James 2:10-11 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Galatians 3:24 ESV / 29 helpful votes

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 28 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Acts 5:40-42 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name. And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Galatians 5:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Romans 7:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

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