Friday May 13, 2022

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Gods Law

1 John 3:4 ESV / 136 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:20 ESV / 123 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 / 120 helpful votes

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

Romans 7:7 ESV / 120 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 / 103 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 / 91 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.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 85 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 85 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.

Romans 13:1 ESV / 80 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.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:4 ESV / 77 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 73 helpful votes

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

James 1:25 ESV / 72 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.

Amos 5:24 ESV / 72 helpful votes

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

James 2:10 ESV / 71 helpful votes

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

John 14:15 ESV / 71 helpful votes

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

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 71 helpful votes

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

Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 70 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. ...

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 68 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.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 67 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.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 67 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 / 66 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?

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 65 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.

Luke 4:16 ESV / 63 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.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:28 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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

1 John 5:3 ESV / 61 helpful votes

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

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 61 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:4 ESV / 60 helpful votes

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

Romans 2:13 ESV / 58 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.

1 John 3:21-22 ESV / 57 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 / 57 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 56 helpful votes

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

John 1:17 ESV / 56 helpful votes

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

Romans 6:15 ESV / 55 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 54 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 / 54 helpful votes

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

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 54 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. ...

Acts 5:32 ESV / 54 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 15:12 ESV / 54 helpful votes

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

Romans 7:4 ESV / 52 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.

Romans 6:14 ESV / 51 helpful votes

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

Acts 2:38 ESV / 51 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.

Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 51 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.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 51 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 51 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.

Romans 7:6 ESV / 50 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.

Acts 13:39 ESV / 50 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:21 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

John 15:10 ESV / 49 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.

Luke 16:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

Mark 12:31 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 1:8-10 ESV / 48 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,

Psalm 119:30 ESV / 47 helpful votes

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

Psalm 103:17-18 ESV / 47 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 / 47 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 10:12-13 ESV / 47 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?

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 47 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.

Psalm 19:7-9 ESV / 46 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.

Deuteronomy 30:16 ESV / 46 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.

Titus 3:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Romans 7:14 ESV / 44 helpful votes

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

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,

Titus 3:8 ESV / 43 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.

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 43 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.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 43 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.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 42 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.