21 Bible Verses about Taking The Law To Heart

Instead, in the law of Yahweh [is] his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.

The law of his God [is] in his heart. His steps will not slip.

'I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law [is] {deep within me}.'"

"But this [is] the covenant that I will {make} with the house of Israel after those days," {declares} Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.

For this [is] the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be {their} God and they will be {my} people.

"This [is] the covenant that I will decree for them after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people [who have] my teaching in their heart; you must not fear [the] reproach of men, or be terrified because of their abuse.

"Remember the instruction of my servant Moses, which I commanded him at Horeb to all Israel, the rules and regulations.

There was not a king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all of his heart and with all of his soul and with all of his might according to the law of Moses, nor did one arise like him afterwards.

But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they must listen to them.'

And [when] they heard [this], they began to glorify God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many ten thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous adherents of the law.

"I am a Jewish man born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law received from our fathers, being zealous for God, just as all [of] you are today.

And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live [there],

I found {he} was accused concerning controversial questions of their law, but having no charge deserving death or imprisonment.

who even attempted to desecrate the temple, and we arrested {him}.

But I do confess this to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), so I worship the God of our fathers, believing all things [that are] in accordance with the law and that are written in the prophets,

[while] Paul said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews nor against the temple nor against Caesar have I sinned with reference to anything!"

who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts [one] after another accusing or even defending them

But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

{circumcised on the eighth day}, from the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew [born] from Hebrews, according to the law a Pharisee,