“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

When Jesus came into Peter’s home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever.

Jesus *said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?

Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they *spoke to Jesus about her.

and *implored Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live.”

They *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *implored Him to lay His hand on him.

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger.

And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

and to offer a sacrifice according to what was said in the Law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to carry out for Him the custom of the Law,

When they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city of Nazareth.

‘Every ravine will be filled,
And every mountain and hill will be brought low;
The crooked will become straight,
And the rough roads smooth;

Then He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him to help her.

One day He was teaching; and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing.

And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.

for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’

He *said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and they feared the people; for they understood that He spoke this parable against them.

“But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for My name’s sake.

While I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and the power of darkness are yours.”

Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Philip *found Nathanael and *said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;

“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?

But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.”

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?”

Even in your law it has been written that the testimony of two men is true.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

Peter *said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You.”

Jesus *answered, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

His disciples *said, “Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech.

and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

So Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law.” The Jews said to him, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death,”

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.”

and lay them at the apostles’ feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.

They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;

you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”

saying, “Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight.”

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, “Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”

and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.”

“For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:

saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.”

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;

take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law.

crying out, “Men of Israel, come to our aid! This is the man who preaches to all men everywhere against our people and the Law and this place; and besides he has even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”

“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,

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to try me according to the Law, and in violation of the Law order me to be struck?”

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.”

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,

When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.

For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;

for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,

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 you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God,

and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,

You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?