100 Bible Verses About Moral Law
Bible verses about Moral Law
Delve into the heart of God's wisdom as we explore the Moral Law through scripture. Understanding this divine code, etched not just in stone but upon our very hearts, is crucial for navigating life's complexities with integrity and purpose. These verses illuminate the path towards righteousness, revealing God's unwavering standard of goodness and justice. By studying them, we gain invaluable insight into His character and learn to reflect His love in our actions. Embrace this journey of discovery, allowing the Moral Law to shape your conscience and guide you into a deeper relationship with the Divine. Let scripture be your compass, pointing you toward a life of moral excellence and spiritual fulfillment.
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Leviticus 6:4 (KJV)
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
God's Moral Law: Bible Verses & Guidance
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Thou shalt not kill.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
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.
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
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.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not steal.
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:
And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean.
And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
The Bible's verses on moral law, encompassing principles from the Ten Commandments to Jesus' teachings on love and compassion, offer a timeless and comprehensive framework for ethical living. These scriptures reveal that morality isn't arbitrary, but divinely rooted, reflecting God's character and design for humanity. They underscore the importance of justice, honesty, and empathy in our interactions with others, while also highlighting the inherent human struggle with sin and the need for grace and forgiveness. Ultimately, reflecting upon and applying these biblical principles to our daily lives allows us to cultivate a more just and compassionate world, aligning ourselves with God's will and fostering a deeper connection with Him and our fellow human beings. Embracing these moral guidelines provides a pathway towards personal growth, societal betterment, and a life that honors God's unwavering commitment to goodness and truth.