29 Bible Verses about Breaking God's Law

The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.

Jehovah said: They have forsaken the Law I set before them. They have not obeyed my voice nor walked according to it.

You have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not obeyed it.

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

They did not keep the covenant of God. They refused to walk in his law.

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and paid no attention to your orders.

But even Judah did not obey the commands of Jehovah their God. They were guided by the rules Israel made.

We have done great wrong against you. We have not obeyed the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.

Our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not obeyed your Law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

Jehovah continued: I will not withdraw punishment for the many transgressions of Judah. For they have rejected the Law of Jehovah! They have not kept his statutes. Their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

You have not humbled yourselves to this very day. You have not honored me or lived according to all the laws that I gave you and your ancestors.'

This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against Jehovah by not obeying all his commandments.

The law is paralyzed and justice is never delivered. The wicked surround the righteous and deliver perverted justice.

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.

It is time for Jehovah to act. They have broken your law.

My eyes shed streams of water, because they do not keep your law.

His answer to them was in the form of a question: Why do you go against the word of God in favor of your tradition?

So to this day they go on in their old ways. They do not worship Jehovah. They do not keep his orders, his ways, or the law Jehovah gave to the children of Jacob. They are the ones he gave the name Israel.

If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him. This is by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.

Whoever obeys the whole law and yet stumbles in one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said: Do not commit adultery, also said: Do not murder (Greek: phoneuo: kill, slay, murder). Now if you do not commit adultery, but you commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

How can you say you are wise and that you have Jehovah's Laws? The scribes have used their pens to spread falsehoods.

We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

Sound the alarm on the trumpet. The enemy swoops down on Jehovah's Temple like an eagle. The people of Israel have rejected my covenant promise and rebelled against my Law.

For John had said to him: It is not lawful for you to have her.

Paul said to him: God will strike you, white washed wall! Do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be struck?

But when you show partiality you commit sin. The law then convicts you as transgressors.

For he who said: Do not commit adultery, also said: Do not murder (Greek: phoneuo: kill, slay, murder). Now if you do not commit adultery, but you commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Have you read the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

They said: This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.