21 Bible Verses about Taking The Law To Heart

Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night.

The instruction of his God is in his heart;
his steps do not falter.

I delight to do Your will, my God;
Your instruction lives within me.”

“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.

But this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be My people.

This is the covenant I will make with them
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws on their hearts
and write them on their minds,

Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is My instruction:
do not fear disgrace by men,
and do not be shattered by their taunts.

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

Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his mind and with all his heart and with all his strength according to all the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him.

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

When they heard it, they glorified God and said, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

He continued, “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and educated according to the strict view of our patriarchal law. Being zealous for God, just as all of you are today,

Someone named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good reputation with all the Jews residing there,

I found out that the accusations were about disputed matters in their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or chains.

He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we apprehended him [and wanted to judge him according to our law.

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

while Paul made the defense that, “Neither against the Jewish law, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned at all.”

They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.

circumcised the eighth day; of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; regarding the law, a Pharisee;