76 Bible Verses About The Law
Bible verses about The Law
Exploring the Law through scripture is a journey into the very heart of God's character and his relationship with humanity. These verses offer not a rigid set of rules, but a profound glimpse into God's desire for order, justice, and ultimately, love. Understanding the Law provides a framework for discerning right from wrong, illuminating the path towards a life of righteousness and obedience. It reveals God's unwavering commitment to his covenant and points us to the fulfillment of the Law in Jesus Christ. By studying these passages, we gain wisdom, grow closer to God, and discover the transformative power of his word in our lives.
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Exodus 28:38 (KJV)
And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.
God's Law: Understanding & Living by Divine Rules
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the Lord.
On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.
And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.
And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
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.
At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord’s.
And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;
And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord.
And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
Exploring Bible verses on "The Law" reveals a multifaceted understanding of its purpose and function throughout scripture. From the initial commandments given to Moses, establishing a covenant between God and Israel, to Jesus' fulfillment and reinterpretation of the Law through love and grace, these passages offer profound insights. They highlight God's desire for order, justice, and a relationship with humanity based on righteousness. Reflecting on these verses prompts us to consider the role of rules and guidelines in our own lives, discerning the difference between legalistic adherence and a genuine pursuit of God's will. While the Law served its purpose in revealing sin and pointing toward Christ, we are ultimately called to live by the Spirit, embodying the principles of love, compassion, and forgiveness that transcend mere legal obligation and truly reflect God's heart.