'Law' in the Bible

"Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),

and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."

He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"

It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.

Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'

The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses."

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

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

"I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?"

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

(for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

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

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

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."