29 Bible Verses about Breaking God's Law

The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

The Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,

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

Those who follow after wickedness draw near;
They are far from Your law.

They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk in His law;

“But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly;
They became stubborn and would not listen to Your commandments.

Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

We have acted very corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.

“For our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers have not kept Your law
Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your admonitions with which You have admonished them.

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Judah and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they rejected the law of the Lord
And have not kept His statutes;
Their lies also have led them astray,
Those after which their fathers walked.

But they have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My law or My statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers.”’

Because you have burned sacrifices and have sinned against the Lord and not obeyed the voice of the Lord or walked in His law, His statutes or His testimonies, therefore this calamity has befallen you, as it has this day.”

Therefore the law is ignored
And justice is never upheld.
For the wicked surround the righteous;
Therefore justice comes out perverted.

“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who had admonished them
So that they might return to You,
And they committed great blasphemies.

It is time for the Lord to act,
For they have broken Your law.

My eyes shed streams of water,
Because they do not keep Your law.

And He answered and said to them, “Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

To this day they do according to the earlier customs: they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances or the law, or the commandments which the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel;

Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him strictly, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods or for imprisonment.”

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.

we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.

Put the trumpet to your lips!
Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.

For John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

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?”

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

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

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