Law of God, The

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• Matthew 5:18 NT

  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.

• Genesis 2:16 OT

  Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

• Genesis 2:17 OT

  but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

• Romans 5:12-14 NT

  Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. Nevertheless death…

• Genesis 9:6 OT

  Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

• Exodus 20:2-17 OT

  “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or…

• Psalms 78:5 OT

  For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

• Exodus 31:18 OT

  When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.

• John 7:19 NT

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

• Acts 7:53 NT

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

• Galatians 3:19 NT

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

• Hebrews 2:2 NT

  For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

• Psalms 19:8 OT

  Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

• Romans 7:14 NT

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

• Romans 7:12 NT

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

• Psalms 119:96 OT

  I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

• Psalms 19:7 OT

  Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

• Romans 12:2 NT

  Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

• Psalms 119:142 OT

  Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

• 1 John 5:3 NT

  For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

• Psalms 51:6 OT

  Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

• Matthew 5:28 NT

  but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

• Matthew 22:37 NT

  Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

• Deuteronomy 27:26 OT

  ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”