16 Bible Verses about the Law of moses

the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Holies has not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very likeness of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, perfect those who come to them;

But Christ, having come as a High Priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hand (that is, not of this creation), nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, entered, once for all, into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. For, if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctifies to the purification of the flesh; read more.
how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And every priest, indeed, stands daily ministering, and ofttimes offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but This Man, having offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth awaiting until His foes shall be placed as a footstool for His feet. read more.
For by one offering He hath perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

for they could not bear that which was being commanded: "And, if a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned";

Then Paul said to him, "God is about to smite you??ou whited wall! And do you sit judging me according to the law, and, in violation of law, command me to be smitten?"

who also attempted to desecrate the temple; whom also we seized.??7 [But the chief captain Lysias came, and with great violence took him away out of our hands, commanding his accusers to come before you;]

Now, on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood, and cried, saying, "If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink.

And, when He was in Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many believed on His name, beholding His signs which He was doing.

Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.

But, when His brethren went up to the feast, then He also went up, not openly, but as it were in secret.

The Jews, therefore, answered him, "We have a law, and according to the law He ought to die, because He made Himself God's Son."

Anyone, having set aside Moses' law, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses;

Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such; what, therefore, dost Thou say?"

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; because it has been written, "Cursed is every one who is hung upon a tree";

A second like it is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It could not be! For, if a law had been given, which was able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been by law;

For, what was impossible under law, wherein it was weak through the flesh. God, sending His Own Son in likeness of sinful flesh, and, respecting sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place! and, further, he brought Greeks also into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

Then they suborned men, who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God." And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the Scribes; and, coming upon him, they seized him, and brought him to the Sanhedrin, and set up false witnesses, who said, "This man does not cease speaking words against this holy place, and the law; read more.
for we have heard him say, that This Jesus, the Nazarene, will overthrow this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."

because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

For, what was impossible under law, wherein it was weak through the flesh. God, sending His Own Son in likeness of sinful flesh, and, respecting sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

for Moses, from ancient generations, has in every city those preaching him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath."

And, after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brethren, if there is among you any word of exhortation for the people, speak."

for as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned under law shall be judged by law;

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, Moses on whom ye have set your hope.

For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;

And, when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising Him, His name was called Jesus??hich was so called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.

and he says, "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being zealous for God, even as ye all are to-day;

For, if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

But, if the ministration of death, engraven in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look steadily upon the face of Moses on account of the glory of his face, which glory was passing away;

For ye have not come to a mount that is touched and burning with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice those who heard entreated that no word more should be added to them; for they could not bear that which was being commanded: "And, if a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned"; read more.
and so terrible was the appearance, Moses said, "I am exceedingly frightened and in fear!" But ye have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect; and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than Abel.

"Think not that I came to destroy the law, or the prophets; I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not attain to such a law. Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling; as it has been written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offense; and he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

But this I say: A covenant previously confirmed by God, the law, which came into existence four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate, that it should make the promise of no effect.

So that the law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But, when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under law,

And they reviled him, and said, "You are His disciple; but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God hath spoken to Moses; but, as to this Man, we know not whence He is."

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very likeness of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, perfect those who come to them;

You who boast in law, do you dishonor God through your transgression of the law?

For, if the word spoken through angels became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a righteous recompense,

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.

Now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were strong enough to bear?

But this multitude, who know not the law, are accursed."

The Jews, therefore, answered him, "We have a law, and according to the law He ought to die, because He made Himself God's Son."

Did not Moses give you the law? and not one of you does the law. Why are ye seeking to kill Me?"

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spake to him on mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us:

If, however, ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," ye do well;

who, indeed, received the law as the ministrations of angels, and did not keep it."

And some, coming down from Judaea, were teaching the brethren, "Unless ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved."