Thematic Bible: The law
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"Take the book of this law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and let it be there for a witness unto thee.
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the witness which I will give thee.
And he took and put the testimony in the ark, and set the staves to the ark and put the mercy seat on high upon the ark,
And I departed and came down from the hill and put the tables in the ark which I had made: and there they remained, as the LORD commanded me.
And there was nothing in the Ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel after they were come out of Egypt.
Moreover there was nothing in the Ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, after they were come out of Egypt.
Divination » The law » Forbade to the israelites the practice of
Let there not be found among you that maketh his son or his daughter go through fire, either a bruterer or a maker of dismal days, or that useth witchcraft, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or that speaketh with a spirit, or a soothsayer, or that asketh the advice of the dead.
"'Ye shall eat nothing with the blood, ye shall use no witchcraft, nor observe dismal days.
Divination » The law » Forbade seeking to
Turn not to them that work with spirits, neither regard them that observe dismal days, that ye be not defiled by them: for I am the LORD your God.
For these nations which thou shalt conquer hearken unto makers of dismal days and bruterers. But the LORD thy God permitteth not that to thee.
Divination » The law » Punished with death those who used
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
"'If there be man or woman that worketh with a spirit or a maker of dismal days, they shall die for it. Men shall stone them with stones, and their blood shall be upon them.'"
Divination » The law » Punished those who sought to
"'If any soul turn him to enchanters or expounders of tokens and go a whoring after them, I will put my face upon that soul and will destroy him from among his people.
Jamin » Priest » expounded » The law » returned exciles
And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to give heed unto the law, and the people stood in their place.
Keep » The law
Whoso keepeth the law, is a child of understanding; but he that feedeth riotous men, shameth his father.
And the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and make thee governor of Israel, and to keep the law of the LORD thy God.
Be, therefore, exceeding strong that ye take heed to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye bow not aside therefrom, to the righthand or to the left:
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God for to keep all the words of this law and these ordinances for to do them:
Christian Liberty » Is freedom from » The law
For the law of the spirit, that bringeth life through Jesus Christ, hath delivered me from the law of sin, and death:
But now are we delivered from the law, and dead from that whereunto we were in bondage: that we should serve in a new conversation of the spirit, and not in the old conversation of the letter.
Sin » The law » By its strictness stirs up
For sin took occasion by the means of the commandment and so deceived me, and by the selfsame commandment, slew me.
For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
But sin took an occasion by the means of the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For verily, without the law sin was dead.
Sin » The law » Is transgressed by every
All that commit sin, committeth unrighteousness also, for sin is unrighteousness.
Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one point, he is guilty in all. For he that said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," said also, "thou shalt not kill." Though thou shalt do none adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art a transgressor of the law.
Sin » The law » Gives knowledge of
because that by the deeds of the law, shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. For by the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid: but I knew not what sin meant but by the law. For I had not known what lust had meant, except the law had said, "Thou shalt not lust."
Sin » The law » Is the strength of
The sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is the law.
Sin » The law » Made to restrain
understanding this, how that the law is not given unto a righteous man, but unto the unrighteous and disobedient, to the ungodly and to sinners, to unholy and unclean, to murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, to manslayers and whoremongers; to them that defile themselves with mankind; to menstealers; to liars and to perjured, and so forth if there be any other thing that is contrary to wholesome doctrine
Sin » The law » Curses those guilty of
For as many as are under the deeds of the law, are under malediction. For it is written, "Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them."
Sin » The law » Shows exceeding sinfulness of
Was that, then, which is good made death unto me? God forbid. Nay, sin was death unto me, that it might appear: how that sin by the means of that which is good, had wrought death in me: that sin which is under the commandment, might be out of measure sinful.