Bible Verses About Law: General references

The Torah of ADONAI is perfect, restoring the inner person. The instruction of ADONAI is sure, making wise the thoughtless.

The precepts of ADONAI are right, rejoicing the heart. The mitzvah of ADONAI is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of ADONAI is clean, enduring forever. The rulings of ADONAI are true, they are righteous altogether,

(Alef) How happy are those whose way of life is blameless, who live by the Torah of ADONAI!

How happy are those who observe his instruction, who seek him wholeheartedly!

They do nothing wrong but live by his ways.

You laid down your precepts for us to observe with care.

May my ways be steady in observing your laws.

Then I will not be put to shame, since I will have fixed my sight on all your mitzvot.

I thank you with a sincere heart as I learn your righteous rulings.

I will observe your laws; don't completely abandon me!

Those who abandon Torah praise the wicked, but those who keep Torah fight them.

Evil people don't understand justice, but those who seek ADONAI understand everything.

Does Torah permit us to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?”

But he, spotting their craftiness, said to them,

“Show me a denarius! Whose name and picture does it have?” “The Emperor’s,” they replied.

“Then,” he said to them, “give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give God what belongs to God!”

For whenever Gentiles, who have no Torah, do naturally what the Torah requires, then these, even though they don’t have Torah, for themselves are Torah!

For their lives show that the conduct the Torah dictates is written in their hearts. Their consciences also bear witness to this, for their conflicting thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them

We know that the Torah is good, provided one uses it in the way the Torah itself intends.

We are aware that Torah is not for a person who is righteous, but for those who are heedless of Torah and rebellious, ungodly and sinful, wicked and worldly, for people who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

the sexually immoral — both heterosexual and homosexual — slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and anyone who acts contrary to the sound teaching