The Law of God
85 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
55 sections
- All Men Have Transgressed
- Blessedness of Keeping
- Christ: Came to Fulfil
- Christ: Explained
- Christ: Magnified
- Conscience Testifies To
- Designed to Lead to Christ
- Established by Faith
- Exceeding Broad
- Given: Through Moses
- Given: Through the Ministration of Angels
- Given: To Adam
- Given: To Noah
- Given: To the Israelites
- Gives the Knowledge of Sin
- Holy, Just, and Good
- It is Man's Duty to Keep
- Love is the Fulfilling of
- Man Cannot be Justified By
- Man Cannot Render Perfect Obedience To
- Man, by Nature, not in Subjection To
- Not Grievous
- Obedience to a Characteristic of Saints
- Obedience to a Test of Love
- Obedience To of Prime Importance
- Perfect
- Punishment for Disobeying
- Pure
- Requires Obedience of the Heart
- Requires Perfect Obedience
- Saints: Delight In
- Saints: Freed from the Bondage of
- Saints: Freed from the Curse of
- Saints: Have, Written on Their Hearts
- Saints: Keep
- Saints: Lament Over the Violation of, by Others
- Saints: Love
- Saints: Pledge Themselves to Walk In
- Saints: Pray for Power to Keep
- Saints: Pray to Understand
- Saints: Prepare Their Hearts to Seek
- Saints: should Make the Subject of Their Conversation
- Saints: should Remember
- Sin is a Transgression of
- Spiritual
- The Love of, Produces Peace
- The Wicked: Cast Away
- The Wicked: Despise
- The Wicked: Forget
- The Wicked: Forsake
- The Wicked: Refuse to Hear
- The Wicked: Refuse to Walk In
- To be Used Lawfully
- Truth
- Works Wrath
All Men Have Transgressed
- Romans 3:9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
- Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Blessedness of Keeping
- Psalm 119:1 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
- Matthew 5:19 So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
- 1 John 3:22 and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
- 1 John 3:24 Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
- Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
Christ: Came to Fulfil
- Matthew 5:17 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.
Christ: Explained
- Matthew 7:12 In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
- Matthew 22:37–40 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ …
Christ: Magnified
- Isaiah 42:21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
Conscience Testifies To
- Romans 2:15 So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them
Designed to Lead to Christ
- Galatians 3:24 So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Established by Faith
- Romans 3:31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
Exceeding Broad
- Psalm 119:96 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.
Given: Through Moses
- 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.
- John 7:19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
Given: Through the Ministration of Angels
- 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,
Given: To Adam
- Genesis 2:16–17 And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, …
- Romans 5:12–14 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. …
Given: To Noah
- Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
Given: To the Israelites
- Exodus 20:2–17 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. …
- 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,
Gives the Knowledge of Sin
- Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- 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.”
Holy, Just, and Good
- Romans 7:12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
It is Man's Duty to Keep
- Ecclesiastes 12:13 When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
Love is the Fulfilling of
- Romans 13:8 Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- Galatians 3:10 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- James 2:10 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
Man Cannot be Justified By
- Acts 13:39 Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
- Galatians 2:16 know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law …
- Galatians 3:11 Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
Man Cannot Render Perfect Obedience To
- 1 Kings 8:46 When they sin against You — for there is no one who does not sin — and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
- Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
- Romans 3:10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
Man, by Nature, not in Subjection To
- Romans 7:5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
- Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Not Grievous
- 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
Obedience to a Characteristic of Saints
- Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was enraged at the woman and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
Obedience to a Test of Love
- 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
Obedience To of Prime Importance
- 1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
Perfect
- Psalm 19:7 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
- Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Punishment for Disobeying
- Nehemiah 9:26–27 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies. …
- Isaiah 65:11–13 But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny, …
- Jeremiah 9:13–16 And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice. …
Pure
- Psalm 19:8 The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
Requires Obedience of the Heart
- Psalm 51:6 Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
- Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- Matthew 22:37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Requires Perfect Obedience
- Deuteronomy 27:26 ‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Galatians 3:10 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- James 2:10 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
Saints: Delight In
- Psalm 119:77 May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
- Romans 7:22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
Saints: Freed from the Bondage of
- Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- Romans 7:6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
- Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
Saints: Freed from the Curse of
- Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
Saints: Have, Written on Their Hearts
- Jeremiah 31:33 “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Saints: Keep
- Psalm 119:55 In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.
Saints: Lament Over the Violation of, by Others
- Psalm 119:136 My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
Saints: Love
- Psalm 119:97 Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
- Psalm 119:113 The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.
Saints: Pledge Themselves to Walk In
- Nehemiah 10:29 hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
Saints: Pray for Power to Keep
- Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
Saints: Pray to Understand
- Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
Saints: Prepare Their Hearts to Seek
- 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.
Saints: should Make the Subject of Their Conversation
- 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.
Saints: should Remember
- Malachi 4:4 “Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
Sin is a Transgression of
- 1 John 3:4 Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
Spiritual
- Romans 7:14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
The Love of, Produces Peace
- Psalm 119:165 Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.
The Wicked: Cast Away
- Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and …
The Wicked: Despise
- Amos 2:4 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
The Wicked: Forget
- Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
The Wicked: Forsake
- 2 Chronicles 12:1 After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:13 And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
The Wicked: Refuse to Hear
- Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
- Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
The Wicked: Refuse to Walk In
- Psalm 78:10 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
To be Used Lawfully
- 1 Timothy 1:8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.
Truth
- Psalm 119:142 Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
Works Wrath
- Romans 4:15 because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.