21 Bible Verses about Taking The Law To Heart

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

The law of his God is in his heart;
His steps do not slip.

I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your Law is within my heart.”

“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

“For 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 I will write them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws upon their heart,
And on their mind I will write them,”
He then says,

“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
A people in whose heart is My law;
Do not fear the reproach of man,
Nor be dismayed at their revilings.

“Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.

Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.

But Abraham *said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’

And when they heard it they began glorifying God; and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law;

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

“A certain Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, and well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

and I found him to be accused over questions about their Law, but under no accusation deserving death or imprisonment.

And he even tried to desecrate the temple; and then we arrested him. [We wanted to judge him according to our own Law.

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

while Paul said in his own defense, “I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.

For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,

circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;