Thematic Bible: The law
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Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark:
And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Jehovah commanded me.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Divination » The law » Forbade to the israelites the practice of
There shall not be found with thee any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.
Divination » The law » Forbade seeking to
Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am Jehovah your God.
For these nations, that thou shalt dispossess, hearken unto them that practise augury, and unto diviners; but as for thee, Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
Divination » The law » Punished with death those who used
Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.
Divination » The law » Punished those who sought to
And the soul that turneth unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to play the harlot after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Jamin » Priest » expounded » The law » returned exciles
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people'stood in their place.
Keep » The law
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son; But he that is a companion of gluttons shameth his father.
Only Jehovah give thee discretion and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel; that so thou mayest keep the law of Jehovah thy God.
Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Christian Liberty » Is freedom from » The law
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Sin » The law » By its strictness stirs up
for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.
Sin » The law » Is transgressed by every
Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point , he is become guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Sin » The law » Gives knowledge of
because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
Sin » The law » Is the strength of
The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
Sin » The law » Made to restrain
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
Sin » The law » Curses those guilty of
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.
Sin » The law » Shows exceeding sinfulness of
Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; --that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.