29 Bible Verses about Breaking God's Law

The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.

Those who have evil designs against me come near; they are far from your law.

They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.

And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.

For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

It is time, O Lord, for you to let your work be seen; for they have made your law without effect.

Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.

And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

And if anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him, by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.

For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all. For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:

Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.

Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?

But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

Saying, This man is teaching the people to give worship to God in a way which is against the law.