'Rules' in the Bible

for kingship belongs to the Lord;He rules over the nations.

For the sovereign Lord is awe-inspiring; he is the great king who rules the whole earth!

Consume them in rage;consume them until they are gone.Then people will know throughout the earththat God rules over Jacob.Selah

He rules forever by His might;He keeps His eye on the nations.The rebellious should not exalt themselves.Selah

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.

Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.

For the music director; according to the gittith style; written by the Korahites, a psalm. How lovely is the place where you live, O Lord who rules over all!

Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow builds a nest, where she can protect her young near your altars, O Lord who rules over all, my king and my God.

O Lord who rules over all, how blessed are those who trust in you!

if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments,

The rules you set down are completely reliable. Holiness aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever.

The Lord has established His throne in heaven,and His kingdom rules over all.

Praise the Lord, all His worksin all the places where He rules.My soul, praise Yahweh!

How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart,

If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.

Praise be to you, O Lord: give me knowledge of your rules.

I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.

I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

Spare me shame and humiliation, for I observe your rules.

Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.

Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance.

I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.

I hold fast to your rules. O Lord, do not let me be ashamed!

O Lord, let me see the way of your rules, and I will keep it to the end.

Give me a desire for your rules, rather than for wealth gained unjustly.

And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

I consider my actions and follow your rules.

The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: give me knowledge of your rules.

You are good, and your works are good; give me knowledge of your rules.

It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.

May your loyal followers turn to me, those who know your rules.

For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.

Revive me with your loyal love, that I might keep the rules you have revealed.

I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.

The wicked prepare to kill me, yet I concentrate on your rules.

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.

I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.

My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

Let me not be moved, and I will be safe, and ever take delight in your rules.

You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.

Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.

I am your servant. Give me insight, so that I can understand your rules.

(Pe) Your rules are marvelous. Therefore I observe them.

Let your servant see the shining of your face; give me knowledge of your rules.

The rules you impose are just, and absolutely reliable.

Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can live.

I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.

I cried out to you, "Deliver me, so that I can keep your rules."

I learned long ago that you ordained your rules to last.

Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

The enemies who chase me are numerous. Yet I do not turn aside from your rules.

I keep your rules; I love them greatly.

I keep your precepts and rules, for you are aware of everything I do.

Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.

If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever."

The Lord rules forever, your God, O Zion, throughout the generations to come! Praise the Lord!

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

Keep your father's commands, my son, and never forsake your mother's rules,

My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.

The rich rules over the poor,And the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.

When the righteous increase, the people rejoice,But when a wicked man rules, people groan.

The words of wise men heard in quietness are better than the shouting of one who rules among fools.

The Lord said:Because these people approach Me with their mouthsto honor Me with lip-service—yet their hearts are far from Me,and their worship consists of man-made ruleslearned by rote—

Look! The Lord GOD comes with strength, and his arm rules for him. Look! His reward is with him, and his payment accompanies him.

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me," says the Lord God who rules over all.

Because of that, the Lord, the God who rules over all, said to me, "Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up."

All of this is because the Lord who rules over all has said: 'Cut down the trees around Jerusalem and build up a siege ramp against its walls. This is the city which is to be punished. Nothing but oppression happens in it.

This is what the Lord who rules over all said to me: "Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned from a vine. So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvester passing your hand over the branches one last time."

The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land.

The Lord said to the people of Judah, "The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: 'You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived," says the Lord who rules over all.

Therefore the Lord who rules over all says, "I will now purify them in the fires of affliction and test them. The wickedness of my dear people has left me no choice. What else can I do?

So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say. 'I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.

The Lord who rules over all told me to say to this people, "Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!"

The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob's descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. He is known as the Lord who rules over all."

For though I, the Lord who rules over all, planted you in the land, I now decree that disaster will come on you because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal."

So I said to the Lord, "O Lord who rules over all, you are a just judge! You examine people's hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause."

So the Lord who rules over all said, "I will surely punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.

For I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, tell you what will happen. I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.'"

Say, 'Listen to what the Lord says, you kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem! The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it ring!

Tell them the Lord who rules over all says, 'I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter's vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.'

"The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, 'I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused to pay any attention to what I have said!'"

O Lord who rules over all, you test and prove the righteous. You see into people's hearts and minds. Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.

"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll raise up a righteous branch for David. He will be a king who rules wisely, and he will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: 'I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.'"

The Lord who rules over all says to the people of Jerusalem: "Do not listen to what those prophets are saying to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They are reporting visions of their own imaginations, not something the Lord has given them to say.

You must no longer say that the Lord's message is burdensome. For what is 'burdensome' really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the Lord who rules over all.

"Therefore, the Lord who rules over all says, 'You have not listened to what I said.

Then the Lord said to me, "Tell them that the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, 'Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can't get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.'

If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord who rules over all says 'You most certainly must drink it!

For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord who rules over all, affirm it!'

The Lord who rules over all says, 'Disaster will soon come on one nation after another. A mighty storm of military destruction is rising up from the distant parts of the earth.'