19 Bible Verses about Fulfilling The Law

you know the commandments, "do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honour your father, and mother."

you know the commandments, "do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour thy father and mother."

by the divine direction he came into the temple, just as the parents of Jesus were bringing in the child to perform what the law required in his behalf.

and when they had performed every thing required by the divine law, they returned into Galilee, to Nazareth their city.

if to avoid the violation of the Mosaic law, a man be exposed to circumcision on the sabbath-day, are ye angry at me, because I cured a man, whose whole body was indisposed on the sabbath-day?

Pilate then said to them, take him your selves, and judge him according to your law. but the Jews said to him, it is not lawful for us to put any man to death.

Are all things lawful for me? however, all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? however, I will not be a slave to any.

are all things lawful for me? yet all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? yet all things do not edify.

if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach;

which office he could not discharge here upon earth, where priests are already establish'd, who offer gifts according to the law:

after having said, "victims, oblations, holocausts, and sacrifice for sin, thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein," tho' they are all prescrib'd by the law;

If, agreeably to the scriptures, you observe that royal law, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self," you do well.

One of the Scribes, that had heard their dispute, observing the propriety of his answers, propos'd this question to him, which is the principal commandment of all?

for all the law is comprehended in this one precept, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Don't think that I am come to abolish the law or the prophets: I am not come to abolish, but to complete them.

do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.

so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof:

Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that

thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self." the benevolent never does wrong to his neighbour: therefore benevolence is the fulfilling of the law.