'Law' in the Bible

For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;

Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,

With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.

Send Zenas, the man of law, and Apollos on their journey with all care, so that they may be in need of nothing.

And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,

And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.