15 Bible Verses about the Law of moses

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1 Corinthians 9:9

For in the Law of Moses it reads, "You shall not muzzle an ox that is treading out the grain." Is it about the oxen that God is concerned?

2 Corinthians 3:15

Why, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil hangs over their minds,

John 5:46

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

Hebrews 10:28

Anyone who breaks the Law of Moses is put to death without any show of pity, on the evidence of only two or three witnesses.

Matthew 19:8

He said to them, "It was on account of your perversity that Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but it was not so at the beginning.

Acts 15:21

For Moses for generations past has had his preachers in every town, and has been read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.

Galatians 5:3

I insist again to any man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law.

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the Law of moses » Terror of israel at receiving

the Law of moses » Christ » Fulfilled all types and shadows of

Hebrews 10:1

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

Hebrews 9:11-14

But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary, taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance. For if sprinkling ceremonially defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer purifies them physically, read more.
how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?

Hebrews 10:11-14

Every other priest stands officiating day after day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices, though they were powerless ever to remove people's sins. But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand, from that time waiting for his enemies to be made his footstool. read more.
For by that one sacrifice he has forever qualified those who are purified from sin to approach God.

the Law of moses » Priests and levites to teach

the Law of moses » None to approach the mount while God gave

Hebrews 12:20

for they could not bear the order, "Even a wild animal, if it touches the mountain, must be stoned to death,"

the Law of moses » Divided into » Civil, relating to administration of justice

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Do you sit there to try me by the Law, and order them to strike me in violation of the Law?"

Acts 24:6

and actually tried to desecrate the Temple, but we caught him.

the Law of moses » Christ » Attended all feasts of

John 2:23

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

John 7:2

But the Jewish camping festival was coming.

John 7:10

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then Jesus went up also, not publicly, but as though he did not wish to be observed.

the Law of moses » A means of national reformation

the Law of moses » Taught the jews » To love and fear God

the Law of moses » Called » Book of moses

the Law of moses » Given » Through moses as mediator

the Law of moses » Good kings enforced

the Law of moses » Divided into » A covenant of works to the jews as a nation

the Law of moses » All israelites required » To lay up, in their hearts

the Law of moses » All israelites required » To teach their children

the Law of moses » Taught the jews » All punishments awarded according to

John 19:7

The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by our law he deserves death, for declaring himself to be a son of God."

Hebrews 10:28

Anyone who breaks the Law of Moses is put to death without any show of pity, on the evidence of only two or three witnesses.

the Law of moses » Divided into » Moral, embodied in the ten commandments

the Law of moses » Christ » Bore the curse of

the Law of moses » Given » At horeb

the Law of moses » All israelites required » To observe

the Law of moses » Taught the jews » To love their neighbor

the Law of moses » Given » After the exodus

the Law of moses » Called » Book of the law

the Law of moses » Given » To no other nation

the Law of moses » Could not give righteousness and life

Galatians 3:21

Is the Law then contrary to God's promises? By no means. For if a law had been given that could have brought life, uprightness would really have come through law.

Romans 8:3-4

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature, so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

the Law of moses » Given » To the jews

the Law of moses » Given » From the mount sinai

the Law of moses » The jews » Accused Christians of speaking

Acts 21:28

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."

Acts 6:11-14

So they instigated people to say, "We have heard him use abusive language about Moses and about God." They aroused the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they set upon him and seized him, and brought him before the council. Then they brought forward false witnesses, who said, "This man is constantly saying things against this holy place and against the Law, read more.
for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down and change the customs that have been handed down to us by Moses."

the Law of moses » Was not the manifestation of the grace of God

Romans 8:3-4

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature, so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

the Law of moses » Publicly read » In the synagogues every sabbath day

Acts 15:21

For Moses for generations past has had his preachers in every town, and has been read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."

Acts 13:15

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue authorities sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any appeal to make to the people, proceed."

the Law of moses » The jews » Shall be judged by

Romans 2:12

All who sin without having the Law will perish without regard to the Law, and all who sin under the Law will be judged by the Law.

John 5:45

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

the Law of moses » Christ » Circumcised according to

Romans 15:8

I hold that Christ has become an agent of circumcision to show God's truthfulness in carrying out the promises made to our forefathers,

Luke 2:21

When he was eight days old and it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, as the angel had named him, before his birth was first expected.

the Law of moses » The scribes were learned in, and expounded

the Law of moses » Publicly read » At the feast of tabernacles in the sabbatical year

the Law of moses » Public instruction given to youth in

Acts 22:3

"I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

Luke 2:46

And on the third day they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

the Law of moses » Kings to write out and study

the Law of moses » Taught the jews » Strict justice and impartiality

the Law of moses » Divided into » Ceremonial, relating to manner of worshipping God

the Law of moses » Called » Ministration of condemnation

2 Corinthians 3:9

If there was splendor in the religion of condemnation, the religion of uprightness must far surpass it in splendor.

the Law of moses » Called » Ministration of death

2 Corinthians 3:7

But if the religion of death, carved in letters of stone, was ushered in with such splendor, so that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face on account of the brightness that was fading from it,

the Law of moses » Book of, laid up in the sanctuary

the Law of moses » Rehearsed by moses

the Law of moses » Called » A fiery law

the Law of moses » Given » In the desert

the Law of moses » Darkness, &c at giving of, illustrative of obscurity of mosaic dispensation

Hebrews 12:18-24

For it is no tangible blazing fire that you have come up to, no blackness and darkness and storm, no trumpet blast and voice whose words made those who heard them beg to be told no more, for they could not bear the order, "Even a wild animal, if it touches the mountain, must be stoned to death," read more.
and so awful was the sight that Moses said, "I am aghast and appalled!" But you have come up to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels, to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes, to Jesus the negotiator of a new agreement, and to sprinkled blood that speaks more powerfully than even Abel's.

the Law of moses » Tables of, laid up in the ark

the Law of moses » Entire of, written in a book

the Law of moses » Christ » Came not to destroy but to fulfil

Matthew 5:17-18

"Do not suppose that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them but to enforce them. For I tell you, as long as heaven and earth endure, not one dotting of an i or crossing of a t will be dropped from the Law until it is all observed.

the Law of moses » Remarkable phenomena connected with, at giving of

the Law of moses » Is the law of God

the Law of moses » Publicly read » By ezra

the Law of moses » Publicly read » By joshua

the Law of moses » The jews » From regard to, rejected Christ

Romans 9:31-33

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it. And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble, as the Scripture says, "See, I will put a stone on Zion to make people stumble, and a rock to trip over, But no one who has faith in it will be disappointed."

the Law of moses » Could not disannul the covenant of grace made in Christ

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.

the Law of moses » A schoolmaster to lead to Christ

the Law of moses » Christ » Made under

the Law of moses » Additions made to, in the plains of moab by jordan

the Law of moses » All israelites required » To know

the Law of moses » The jews » Zealous for

John 9:28-29

Then they sneered at him, and said, "You are a disciple of his yourself, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man came from."

the Law of moses » Christ » Magnified and made honorable

the Law of moses » Christ » Fulfilled all precepts of

the Law of moses » A shadow of good things to come

Hebrews 10:1

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

the Law of moses » All israelites required » To remember

the Law of moses » The jews » Dishonored God by breaking

the Law of moses » Called » Word spoken by angels

Hebrews 2:2

For if the message delivered by angels proved to be authentic, and every violation or neglect of it led to a corresponding penalty,

the Law of moses » Christ » Abrogated, as a covenant of works

the Law of moses » Was a burdensome yoke

Acts 15:10

Then why do you now try to test God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke that neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

the Law of moses » The jews » Held those ignorant of, accursed

John 7:49

But these common people who do not know the Law are doomed!"

the Law of moses » The jews » Accused Christ of breaking

John 19:7

The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by our law he deserves death, for declaring himself to be a son of God."

the Law of moses » The jews » Broke it themselves

John 7:19

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

the Law of moses » Called » Lively oracles

Acts 7:38

It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live.

the Law of moses » Called » Royal law

the Law of moses » Given » By disposition of angels

the Law of moses » Primitive jewish converts would have all Christians observe

Acts 15:1

Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.

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