'Laws' in the Bible

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

"But if his sons abandon my laws and do not follow my ordinances,

Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:

The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging.

The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.

Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

I will give you thanks with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous laws.

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.

Woe to those enacting crooked statutesand writing oppressive laws

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

The Lord answered, "This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.

Then you shall say to them, '{Because} your ancestors have forsaken me,' {declares} Yahweh, 'and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws.

Tell them that the Lord says, 'You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws.

This is what the LORD says, who gives the sun for light by day, the laws that govern the moon and stars for light by night, and who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name:

"If these laws cease to function in my presence," declares the LORD, "then the descendants of Israel will cease to be a nation in my presence for all time!"

This is what the LORD says: "If I had not established my covenant for day and night and the laws that govern the heavens and earth,

To this day your people have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded you and your ancestors.'

You have sacrificed to other gods! You have sinned against the Lord! You have not obeyed the Lord! You have not followed his laws, his statutes, and his decrees! That is why this disaster that is evident to this day has happened to you."

And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

They will attack you with weapons, chariots, wagons, and with a huge army; they will array themselves against you on every side with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I will assign them the task of judgment; they will punish you according to their laws.

And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

Therefore, your majesty, establish the decree and sign the written document so it can't be changed, in accordance with the laws of the Medes and Persians that can't be repealed."

So they approached the king and asked, "Didn't you sign an edict that for the next 30 days if anyone prays to any god or man, except to you, your majesty, he would be thrown into the lions' pit?" The king responded, "The decree has been established, in accordance with the laws of the Medes and Persians that can't be repealed."

But the men who had gone as a group to the king told him, "Remember, your majesty, that according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, any decree or edict that the king establishes cannot be repealed."

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

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

Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Many nations will come, saying, "Come on! Let's go up to the Lord's mountain, to the temple of Jacob's God, so he can teach us his commands and we can live by his laws." For Zion will be the source of instruction; the Lord's teachings will proceed from Jerusalem.

For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God's laws.

"Remember the Law of Moses my servant that I gave him at Horeb for all Israel both the decrees and laws.

Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.

But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

The Son of Man will commission His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all causes of sin and all who violate His laws;

The young man said to him, "I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws. What do I still lack?"

They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them

and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves [completely according to ritual]; and there are many other things [oral, man-made laws and traditions handed down to them] which they follow diligently, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper utensils.)

The man said to him, "Teacher, I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."

The man replied, "I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."

If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.

And [you have heard how] I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my countrymen in [my advanced study of the laws of] Judaism, as I was extremely loyal to the traditions of my ancestors.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Stop being carried away by all kinds of unusual teachings, for it is good that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by food laws that have never helped those who follow them.

Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,

And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.