29 Bible Verses about Breaking God's Law

The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

And the LORD says: "Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it,

you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it."

They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from your law.

They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.

"But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.

We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.

Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.

It is because you made offerings and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster has happened to you, as at this day."

So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

It is time for the LORD to act, for your law has been broken.

My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.

He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment."

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do 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 and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.

Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.

because 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! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you 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 murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?

saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law."