Bible Verses About Law

Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting.

Forasmuch as we have heard that some going out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment:

It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose out men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul:

Men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, by word of mouth, tell you the same things.

For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:

That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.

But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have believed: and they are all zealous for the law.

Now they have heard of thee that thou teachest those Jews, who are among the Gentiles to depart from Moses: saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, nor walk according to the custom.

What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.

Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four men, who have a vow on them.

Take these and sanctify thyself with them: and bestow on them, that they may shave their heads. And all will know that the things which they have heard of these are false: but that thou thyself also walkest keeping the law.

But, as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written, decreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has been offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.

For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves.

Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another,

What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

Know you not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as it liveth?

For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), which is made void:

How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?