100 Bible Verses About Following God's Law

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.

And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.

The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the Lord,

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

And they found written in the law which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:

Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died.

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.

For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the Lord’s.

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.

Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obed–edom with joy.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.