Bible Verses About Moral Law
This collection includes 50 passages about Moral Law. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, 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,
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
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