'Law' in the Bible

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.