'Law' in the Bible

“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

For I assure you: Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass from the law until all things are accomplished.

Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them—this is the Law and the Prophets.

When Jesus went into Peter’s house, He saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.

For I came to turna man against his father,a daughter against her mother,a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John;

Or haven’t you read in the Law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?

And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test Him:

“Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?”

All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying in bed with a fever, and they told Him about her at once.

And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were finished, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord: Every firstborn male will be dedicated to the Lord)

and to offer a sacrifice (according to what is stated in the law of the Lord: a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons).

Guided by the Spirit, he entered the temple complex. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to perform for Him what was customary under the law,

When they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

After He left the synagogue, He entered Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him about her.

On one of those days while He was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and also from Jerusalem. And the Lord’s power to heal was in Him.

But since the Pharisees and experts in the law had not been baptized by him, they rejected the plan of God for themselves.)

Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“What is written in the law?” He asked him. “How do you read it?”

One of the experts in the law answered Him, “Teacher, when You say these things You insult us too.”

Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.

“Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge! You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”

They will be divided, father against son,son against father,mother against daughter,daughter against mother,mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is strongly urged to enter it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the law to drop out.

Then He told them, “These are My words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

for the law was given through Moses,grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!”

Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?”

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed!”

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do You say?”

Even in your law it is written that the witness of two men is valid.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your scripture, I said, you are gods?

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.

First they led Him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

A Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you can speak.”

and everyone who believes in Him is justified from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.

But some of the believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses!”

“This man,” they said, “persuades people to worship God contrary to the law!”

But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of such things.”

When they heard it, they glorified God and said, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay for them to get their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that what they were told about you amounts to nothing, but that you yourself are also careful about observing the law.

shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. What’s more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has profaned this holy place.”

He continued, “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and educated according to the strict view of our patriarchal law. Being zealous for God, just as all of you are today,

Someone named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good reputation with all the Jews residing there,

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! You are sitting there judging me according to the law, and in violation of the law are you ordering me to be struck?”

I found out that the accusations were about disputed matters in their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or chains.

He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we apprehended him [and wanted to judge him according to our law.

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

while Paul made the defense that, “Neither against the Jewish law, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned at all.”

After arranging a day with him, many came to him at his lodging. From dawn to dusk he expounded and witnessed about the kingdom of God. He tried to persuade them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the full expression of knowledge and truth in the law—

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed—attested by the Law and the Prophets

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made empty and the promise is canceled.

For the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.

So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.