24 Bible Verses about Fulfilling The Law

Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

Tell them that the Lord says, 'You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws.

You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'"

You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'"

He returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, committing no iniquity. He will certainly live -- he will not die.

So these men concluded, "We won't find any pretext against this man Daniel unless it is in connection with the law of his God."

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

So when Joseph and Mary had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Pilate told them, "Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him according to your own law!" The Jewish leaders replied, "We cannot legally put anyone to death."

"All things are lawful for me" -- but not everything is beneficial. "All things are lawful for me" -- but I will not be controlled by anything.

"Everything is lawful," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is lawful," but not everything builds others up.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them" (which are offered according to the law),

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.