The Law

Scripture compilation and notes by LCL

If you think that your parents laid down the law, they didn’t. They had some rules, but God is the one who really laid down the law to help His people. He gave the Law to Moses who then shared it with the people. Here are the accounts and then a summary.

Joh 7:49 But this crowd, not knowing the Law, is cursed.
This was spoken by the priests. They called into question the need for the Old Testament law.

Act 13:38 Therefore be it known to you, men, brothers, that through this One the forgiveness of sins is announced to you.
Act 13:39 And by Him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.
Act 18:14 And Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed then, it was anything wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, according to reason I would endure you.
Act 18:15 But if it is a question of a word and names, and of your law, you look to it. For I do not wish to be a judge of such things.

Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of faces with God.
Rom 2:12 For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.
Rom 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.
Rom 2:14 For when the nations, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law unto themselves;
Rom 3:20 because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:21 But now a righteousness of God has been revealed apart from Law, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;
Rom 3:22 even the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ, toward all and upon all those who believe. For there is no difference,
Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
Rom 3:25 whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;
Rom 3:26 for the display of His righteousness at this time, for Him to be just and, forgiving the one being of the faith of Jesus.
Rom 3:27 Then where is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the works of the Law.
Rom 3:30 since it is one God who will justify circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Rom 3:31 Do we then make the Law void through faith? Let it not be! But we establish the Law. (To establish is to create a new law. The law of salvation faith in Christ.)

Rom 4:13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:14 For if they of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is made of no effect;
Rom 4:15 because the Law works out wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Rom 4:16 Therefore it is of faith so that it might be according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
Rom 5:13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Rom 5:20 But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, (The law pointed out what was sin.)
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under Law, but under grace.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law: when I will to do the right (under the law), evil is present with me.
Rom 7:6 But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter (of the law).
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man;
Rom 7:23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Rom 8:2 But the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;
Rom 8:4 so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of flesh, but they who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
Rom 8:7 because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.
Rom 8:9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 9:31 But Israel, who followed after a law of righteousness did not arrive at a law of righteousness.
Rom 9:32 Why? Because it was not of faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that Stumbling-stone;
Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness for everyone who believes.
Rom 10:5 For Moses writes of the righteousness which is of the Law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.” (If we strive to only obey the Law, we are living under the Law and not under grace.)
Rom 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves another has fulfilled the Law.
Rom 13:10 Love works no ill to its neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law.

1Co 9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the Law, I became as under the Law, so that I might gain those who are under the Law.
1Co 9:21 To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
(By trying to obey the law, we are giving power to fleshly sin.)

Gal 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.
Gal 2:19 For through the Law I died to the law, that I might live to God.
Gal 2:21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness is through law, then Christ died without cause.
Gal 3:10 For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them.” (It is impossible to fulfill the law in all that we do.)
Gal 3:11 But that no one is justified by the Law in the sight of God is clear, for, “The just shall live by faith.”
Gal 3:12 But the Law is not of faith; but, “The man who does these things shall live in them.”
(If one seeks to be justified by the law, he will be judged by the law.)
Gal 3:24 So that the Law has become a trainer of us until Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, coming into being out of a woman, having come under Law,
Gal 4:5 that He might redeem those under Law, so that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gal 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do all the Law,
Gal 5:4 you who are justified by Law are deprived of all effect from Christ; you fell from grace.
Gal 5:14 For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Gal 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
Gal 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so you will fulfill the (new) Law of Christ.

1Ti 1:8 But we know that the law is good if a man uses it lawfully,
1Ti 1:9 knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous one, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1Ti 1:10 for fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and anything else that is contrary to sound doctrine,

Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Jas 1:25 But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.
Jas 2:9 But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.
Jas 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Jas 2:11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” But if you do not commit adultery, yet if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the Law.
Jas 2:12 So speak and do as those who shall be judged by the Law of liberty.

So, we find that the Law was given as a temporary restraint and guide to help until Christ appeared. The Law, presented through Moses, was imperfect because it was impossible to fulfill all that was required. Failing in any part of the law meant that one had failed completely and was judged guilty in all areas by God. The salvation of Jesus by faith replaced the law, giving grace that forgave moral mistakes and allowed the hope of salvation to remain through the sacrificial blood of Jesus shed by Him who had no sin. He was the equivalent of the perfect lamb sacrificed to overcome the sins of those following His path in love. To those who mistakenly still clung to the old law, they would be judged by the law and guaranteed to fail, on their own, without gaining salvation. Jesus remains the only path to living with God in Heaven. The name of Jesus became the only name that God the Father recognizes to cover sin and receive help against all trials brought by Satan during life. He became our eternal mediator and high priest providing a path to a perfect Heaven where one must be shielded and protected against the complete and powerful glory of the living God.