Thematic Bible: The law of God


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א AlefHow happy are those whose way is blameless,
who live according to the Lord’s instruction!
Verse ConceptsBlessedCommendationJustice, In Believers' LivesCharacter Of SaintsRejoicing In God's WordEthics

Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsCommands, in NTKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfTeachingInferiorityMisteachingGreatness Of DisciplesTeaching The Way Of GodUnimportant ThingsBreaking The Ten Commandmentsrelaxingrelaxation

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed. Verse ConceptsCurses, DivineAtonementBook of the LawAffirmative ActionBible, Names OfTrusting In WorksThe Curse Of The LawUnder The LawWorks Of The LawBreaking The Ten Commandmentslawcursesobeying

For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all. Verse ConceptsJudaismLaw, Purpose OfLegalismStumblingFound GuiltyAll Sins Being EqualBreaking The Ten CommandmentsGuiltBreaking Chains

‘Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Verse ConceptsFaith, As Basis Of SalvationAtonementBook of the LawAmenThe Curse Of The LawBreaking The Ten Commandments

When they sin against You—
for there is no one who does not sin
and You are angry with them
and hand them over to the enemy,
and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country
whether distant or nearby—
Verse Conceptsethics, and graceImperfection, Influence OfSin, Universality OfSinnersWeights And Measures, DistancesAll Have SinnedWill God Be Angry?Missing The Mark







Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstAngels as God's servantsGuardiansLaw, Purpose OfMediationMoses, Significance OfResponsibility, To GodAngels Giving The LawGod's Promise To AbrahamAngels As MediatorsAngels Activities Among BelieversAngelic GuardianshipPromises

For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment, Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsDisobedience, To GodThe Recompense Of The WickedAngels Giving The LawGod Has RequitedAngels As MediatorsAngels Activities Among Believers

To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law. Verse ConceptsJustification By FaithThe Law Of ChristWithout The LawStaying Strong And Not Giving UpStaying PositivePositive ThinkingNever Giving UpNot Being Alonelawactingfreeorderflexibilitychrist

For you are called to freedom, brothers; only don't use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.





But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law. Verse ConceptsPaul, Teaching OfRitualService To GodChristian Liberty Is Freedom FromNew Birth, Described AsThe Holy Spirit, And RegenerationThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureNew LifeOld ThingsDead To SinWithout The Law


When Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he abandoned the law of the Lord—he and all Israel with him. Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodForsaking God's Things

The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned My instruction that I set in front of them and did not obey My voice or walk according to it. Verse ConceptsDisobedience, To GodForsaking God's ThingsBreaking God's Law


He said to him, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important commandment. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. read more.
All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments."

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.
Verse ConceptsMorality, And RedemptionTabletsWritingReceptive HeartsWriting On PeopleI Will Be Their GodTaking The Law To HeartJournalizing

“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. Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Source OfHardness Of HeartIntelligenceMorality, And RedemptionSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedTabletsWritingWorship With The HeartReceptive HeartsWriting On PeopleI Will Be Their GodTaking The Law To Heart


ס SamekI hate those who are double-minded,
but I love Your instruction.
Verse ConceptsAffection, For God's Worddouble mindednessFicklenessLoving God's Things

Listen, earth!
I am about to bring disaster on these people,
the fruit of their own plotting,
for they have paid no attention to My word.
They have rejected My instruction.
Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of God's CallRefusing To HearGod Will Bring Harm

They are a rebellious people,
deceptive children,
children who do not want to obey the Lord’s instruction.
Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsSin, Nature OfBible, Names OfRefusing To HearLying And Deceitrebellion

He established a testimony in Jacob
and set up a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers
to teach to their children
Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofdiscipline, in the familyJacob, The PatriarchThe Witness Of GodThe Law Given By GodOld Testament Claims InspirationTeaching ChildrenTraining Children

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. Do not have other gods besides Me. Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. read more.
You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers' sin, to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me, but showing faithful love to a thousand [generations] of those who love Me and keep My commands. Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will punish anyone who misuses His name. Remember to dedicate the Sabbath day: You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work-you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy. Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Do not murder. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not give false testimony against your neighbor. Do not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.


May Your compassion come to me
so that I may live,
for Your instruction is my delight.
Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfBe Merciful!God's Word As A Source Of Delight






Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?” Verse ConceptsLegalismLawgiversChrist Would Be KilledThey Do Not Keep CommandsThe Law Given Through MosesMissing The Mark


What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstethics, and graceHeart, Fallen And RedeemedJustice, In Believers' LivesKnowledge, Of SinKnowledge Of Good And EvilLaw, Purpose OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsMind, Of GodPopularityEffect Of The LawExcellent LawFar Be It!No SinThe Entrance Of SinCovetousnesslaw

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment. Verse ConceptsLast JudgmentMutenessSilenceUnder The LawAccountabilityGuilt

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin, Verse ConceptsForgiveness, DivineAdvantagesFar Be It!The Gospel To Jew And GentileAll Have Sinned




When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is: fear God and keep His commands, because this is for all humanity. Verse ConceptsTrue ReligionFear God!Keep The Commandments!DutyFearing GodObeying Godcommandmentsreverence

So the dragon was furious with the woman and left to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and have the testimony about Jesus. Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTOffspringSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InSubsequent Witness To ChristSigns Of The TimesSpiritual Offspring

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They flung Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn them back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies. So You handed them over to their enemies, who oppressed them. In their time of distress, they cried out to You, and You heard from heaven. In Your abundant compassion You gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the power of their enemies.

And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die."

join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of Yahweh our Lord. Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodPromises, HumanServants Of The LordThe Curse Of The LawLater Covenants With GodPeople Bound By OathsThe Law Given Through Moses



Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and Your instruction is true.
Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfGod, The EternalHonestyScripture, Sufficiency OfLaw Described AsGod's Word Is True

My eyes pour out streams of tears
because people do not follow Your instruction.
Verse ConceptsCryingWeepingSheddingBreaking God's Law





Open my eyes so that I may contemplate
wonderful things from Your instruction.
Verse ConceptsRevelation, Responses ToClarityDimness Of VisionUnderstanding God's WordEyes


Yahweh, I remember Your name in the night,
and I obey Your instruction.
Verse ConceptsNightRememberingAll Night PrayersMeditationI Keep The CommandmentsBelievers Remembering God

The Lord was pleased, because of His righteousness,
to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.
Verse ConceptsThe Law Proclaimed




They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.
Verse ConceptsContemptDisobedience, To GodProvokingSelf WillBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's Law

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

Let it serve as a sign for you on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead, so that the Lord’s instruction may be in your mouth; for the Lord brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand. Verse ConceptsForeheadsCeremoniesGod, Power OfHand Of GodLipsStrength Of GodMarks On PeopleSpeaking As From GodThe Law ProclaimedGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

“Remember the instruction of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. Verse ConceptsTaking The Law To Heartthe Law of moses


All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law. Verse ConceptsLast JudgmentSin, God's Judgment OnAccountabilityUnder The LawWithout The LawJudging Others Actionslaw

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 Verse ConceptsGoadsThoughtWritingThoughts Of The WickedWriting On PeopleJustified By WorksKnowing Right And WrongTaking The Law To HeartThings As WitnessesHeart, HumanEthicsMoralityconscienceaccusations

Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law. Verse ConceptsAbolitionFulfilling The LawKeeping Faithlaw

For the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression. Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfEffect Of The LawGod Has AngerNo SinWithout The LawLegaldisobediencelawwrath





My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.
Verse ConceptsBad CounselDangers Of IgnorancedecisionsPoverty, SpiritualRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRetributionAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceWisdom, Source Of HumanValuing KnowledgeGod ForgettingForsaking God's ThingsDeposingIgnorance of GodRejectionignorance

Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the Lord, obey it, and teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel. Verse ConceptsDoctrine, CommunicatedIntelligenceStudyRenewed HeartMan's PurposesStudying The LawTeaching The Way Of GodStudyingstatues

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord
and have not kept His statutes.
The lies that their ancestors followed
have led them astray.
Verse ConceptsAncestorsBad ParentsFalse GodsGuidance, Need For God'sRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodAbominations, Judgments OfThree Or FourBreaking God's Law

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