9 Bible Verses about Lawgivers
Most Relevant Verses
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy [the one God who has the absolute power of life and death]; but who are you to [hypocritically or self-righteously] pass judgment on your neighbor?
“Listen carefully to Me [says the Lord], O My people,
And hear Me, O My nation;
For a [divine] law will go forth from Me,
And I will quickly establish My justice as a light to the peoples.
Afterward all the Israelites approached him, and he commanded them to do everything that the Lord had said to him on Mount Sinai.
“Moses commanded us with a law,
As a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
For the Law was given through Moses, but grace [the unearned, undeserved favor of God] and truth came through Jesus Christ.
“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. Why do you want to kill Me [for not keeping it]?”
This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles [divine words that still live] to be handed down to you.