Law
113 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
23 sections
- (Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) in Synagogues
- (Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Divine Authority For
- (Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Engraved on Stone
- (Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Epitomized by Jesus
- (Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): from City to City
- (Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Given at Sinai
- (Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): On Door Posts
- (Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Renewed by Moses
- Book of, Found by Hilkiah in the Temple
- Curses of, Responsively Read by Levites and People at Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim
- Engraved Upon Monuments
- Expounded to the Assembled Nation at the Feast of Tabernacles in the Sabbatic Year
- Formed a Constitution on Which the Civil Government of the Israelites Was Founded
- Found by Hilkiah in the House of the Lord
- General Scriptures Concerning
- On Frontlets for the Forehead, and Parchment for the Hand
- Preserved in the Ark of the Covenant
- Princes, Priests, and Levites Publicly Taught
- Prophecies In, of the Messiah
- Received by the Disposition of Angels
- Temporary
- The Priests and Levites
- was Given Because of Transgressions Until the Messiah Arrived
(Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) in Synagogues
- Luke 4:16 Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,
- Luke 4:32 They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.
- Acts 13:14–52 And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch, where they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down. …
- Acts 15:21 For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
- Acts 9:20 Saul promptly began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, declaring, “He is the Son of God.”
- Acts 14:1 At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
- Acts 17:1–3 When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. …
- Acts 18:4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.
- Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
(Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Divine Authority For
- Exodus 19:16–24 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled. …
- Exodus 20:1–17 And God spoke all these words: …
- Exodus 24:12–18 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.” …
- Exodus 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
- Exodus 32:15–16 Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. …
- Exodus 34:1–4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. …
- Exodus 34:27–28 The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” …
- Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
- Deuteronomy 4:10–13 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.” …
- Deuteronomy 4:36 He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 5:1–22 Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully. …
- Deuteronomy 9:10 Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
- Deuteronomy 10:1–5 At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood. …
- Deuteronomy 33:2–4 He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand. …
- 1 Kings 8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezra 7:6 this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.
- Nehemiah 1:7 We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.
- Nehemiah 8:1 At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
- Nehemiah 9:14 You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
- Psalm 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
- Psalm 103:7 He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.
- Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
- Malachi 4:4 “Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
- Acts 7:38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
- Acts 7:53 you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
- Galatians 3:19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
- Hebrews 9:18–21 That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. …
(Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Engraved on Stone
- Exodus 20:3–17 You shall have no other gods before Me. …
- Exodus 24:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
- Exodus 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
- Exodus 32:16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
- Exodus 34:29 And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.
- Exodus 40:20 Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.
- Deuteronomy 4:13 He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow — the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
- Deuteronomy 5:4–22 The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. …
- Deuteronomy 9:10 Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
(Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Epitomized by Jesus
- Matthew 22:40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
- Mark 12:29–33 Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. …
- Luke 10:27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
(Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): from City to City
- 2 Chronicles 17:7–10 In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah, …
(Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Given at Sinai
- Exodus 19:1 In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan — in the Arabah opposite Suph — between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
- Deuteronomy 4:10–13 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.” …
- Deuteronomy 33:2 He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
- Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.
(Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): On Door Posts
- Deuteronomy 6:9 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
- Deuteronomy 11:20 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,
(Contained in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): Renewed by Moses
- Deuteronomy 4:44–46 This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites. …
Book of, Found by Hilkiah in the Temple
- 2 Kings 22:8 Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
- 2 Chronicles 34:14 While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given by Moses.
Curses of, Responsively Read by Levites and People at Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim
- Deuteronomy 27:12–26 “When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. …
- Joshua 8:33–35 All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of …
Engraved Upon Monuments
- Deuteronomy 27:2–8 And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster. …
- Joshua 8:30–35 At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel, …
Expounded to the Assembled Nation at the Feast of Tabernacles in the Sabbatic Year
- Deuteronomy 31:10–13 Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles, …
Formed a Constitution on Which the Civil Government of the Israelites Was Founded
- Deuteronomy 17:18–20 When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. …
- 2 Kings 11:12 Then Jehoiada brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, presented him with the Testimony, and proclaimed him king. They anointed him, and the people clapped their hands and declared, “Long live the king!”
- 2 Chronicles 23:11 Then Jehoiada and his sons brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, presented him with the Testimony, and proclaimed him king. They anointed him and shouted, “Long live the king!”
Found by Hilkiah in the House of the Lord
- 2 Kings 22:8 Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
General Scriptures Concerning
- Psalm 19:7–9 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple. …
- Psalm 119:1–8 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD. …
- Proverbs 28:4–5 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them. …
- Matthew 22:21 “Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
- Luke 16:17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
- Luke 20:22–25 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” …
- Romans 2:14–15 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. …
- Romans 7:7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
- Romans 7:12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
- Romans 7:14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
- Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- 1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
- James 1:25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will be blessed in what he does.
- 1 John 3:4 Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
- 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
On Frontlets for the Forehead, and Parchment for the Hand
- Exodus 13:9 It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 13:16 So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
- Deuteronomy 6:4–9 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. …
- Deuteronomy 11:18–21 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. …
Preserved in the Ark of the Covenant
- Exodus 25:16 And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
- Deuteronomy 31:9 So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:26 “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.
Princes, Priests, and Levites Publicly Taught
- Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
- Nehemiah 8:1–18 At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel. …
Prophecies In, of the Messiah
- Luke 24:44 Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
- John 1:45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold — Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
- John 5:46 If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
- John 12:34 The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
- Acts 26:22–23 But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen: …
- Acts 28:23 So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
- Romans 3:21–22 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. …
Received by the Disposition of Angels
- Deuteronomy 33:2 He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
- Psalm 68:17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands — thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
- Acts 7:53 you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
- Galatians 3:19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
- Hebrews 2:2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
Temporary
- Jeremiah 3:16 “In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will …
- Daniel 9:27 And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed …
- Matthew 5:17–45 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. …
- Luke 16:16–17 The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. …
- John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- John 4:20–24 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.” …
- John 8:35 A slave does not remain in the house forever, but a son remains forever.
- Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
- Acts 10:28 He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
- Acts 13:39 Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Acts 15:1–29 Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” …
- Acts 21:20–25 When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. …
- Romans 3:1–2 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? …
- Romans 7:1–6 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? …
- Romans 8:3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
- 2 Corinthians 3:7–14 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory, …
- Galatians 2:3–9 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. …
- Galatians 4:30–31 But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” …
- Ephesians 2:15 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
- Colossians 2:14–23 having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! …
- Hebrews 8:4–13 Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law. …
- Hebrews 9:8–24 By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. …
- Hebrews 10:1–18 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. …
- Hebrews 11:40 God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.
- Hebrews 12:18–19 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm; …
- Hebrews 12:27 The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken — that is, created things — so that the unshakable may remain.
The Priests and Levites
- Leviticus 10:11 so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”
- Deuteronomy 33:10 He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
- 2 Chronicles 35:3 To the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. It is not to be carried around on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your …
was Given Because of Transgressions Until the Messiah Arrived
- Galatians 3:19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
Related topics
The Law of MosesThe Law of GodThe Law of God is the Rule of Life to SaintsThe Law of Moses was not the Manifestation of the Grace of GodThe Law of God is Absolute and PerpetualThe Law of God is the Rule of the Judgment
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.