The work of the law is written on the heart (Rom 2:15)
Under the law, the whole world is accountable to God (Rom 3:19)
Gives knowledge of sin (Rom 3:20; 5:13; 7:7-9)
The Law and the Prophets bear witness to God’s righteousness apart from the law (Rom 3:21)
The law brings wrath (Rom 4:15)
The law came in to increase the trespass (Rom 5:20)
Our sinful passions are aroused by the law (Rom 7:5)
The power of sin is the law (1 Cor 15:56)
Holds captive (Gal 3:23; cf. Rom 11:32; Gal 3:19, 22, 24)
Makes nothing perfect (Heb 7:19)
Has a shadow of the good things to come (Heb 10:1)
Jesus Christ and the law
He spoke about the law
Mt 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.
Mt 5:18 – For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Mt 7:12 – "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Mt 11:13 – For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John,
Mt 12:5 – Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?
Mt 22:40 – On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
Mt 23:23 – "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Lk 10:26 – He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?"
Lk 16:16 – "The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.
Lk 16:17 – But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.
Lk 24:44 – Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
Jn 7:19 – Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"
Jn 7:23 – If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
Jn 8:17 – In your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
Jn 10:34 – Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
Jn 15:25 – But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
He was asked about the law (Mt 22:36; Jn 8:5; 12:34)
He was brought to the temple for purification according to the Law of Moses and of the Lord (Lk 2:22-24, 27, 39)
Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote of Him (Jn 1:45)
By Him we are freed from everything from which we could not be freed from the law (Acts 13:38)
Salvation is through the grace of the Lord Jesus rather than by keeping the laws of Moses (Acts 15:1, 5, 11)
The law binds a person while he lives (Rom 7:1, 2)
Believers died to the law through the body of Christ (Rom 7:4)
The law of the Spirit of life has set us free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2)
He accomplishes what the law could not do (Rom 8:3, 4)
He is the end of the law (Rom 10:4)
Paul preached Jesus from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets (Acts 28:23)
If righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose (Gal 2:21)
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law (Gal 3:13)
The law was our guardian until He came (Gal 3:24)
He was born under the law to redeem those who were under the law (Gal 4:4, 5)
To be justified by the law is to be severed from Christ (Gal 5:4)
Law of Christ (Gal 6:2)
He abolished the law of commandments and ordinances (Eph 2:15)
He was appointed by the word of the oath which came later than the law (Heb 7:28)
Cf. Moses wrote of Jesus (Jn 5:46)
Believers and the law
Not required to keep the law of Moses (cf. Acts 15:1, 5, 28, 29)
Uphold the law (Rom 3:31)
Not under law but under grace (Rom 6:14, 15; 1 Cor 9:20; Gal 5:18)
Died to the law (Rom 7:4; Gal 2:19)
Released from the law (Rom 7:6)
Set free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2)
The righteous requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Rom 8:4)
Submit to God’s law (Rom 8:7)
The one who loves another has fulfilled the law (Rom 13:8)
Redeemed from the curse of the law (Gal 3:13; cf. Gal 4:5)
Walk according to the Spirit; against such things there is no law (Gal 5:22, 23)
Exhorted to fulfill the law of Christ (Gal 6:2)
God’s laws are in them (Heb 8:10, 16)
Taught to do and fulfill the law (Jas 1:25; 2:8, 12; 4:11)
Righteousness/justification and law
It is not the hearers of the law but the doers of the law who are justified (Rom 2:13)
Righteous requirement of the law (Rom 2:26; 8:4)
We are justified by faith in Christ apart from the works of the law (Acts 13:38, 39; Rom 3:20, 21, 28; 10:4; Gal 2:16, 21; 3:11, 24; 5:4)
The promise to Abraham and his offspring did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith (Rom 4:13)
Israel failed to reach a law that would lead to righteousness (Rom 9:31)
Righteousness based on the law (Rom 10:5)
Righteousness is not by the law (Rom 3:21)
The law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith (Gal 3:24)
Paul was blameless in terms of righteousness under the law (Phil 3:9)
Paul seeks righteousness that comes not from the law but that which comes through faith in Christ (Phil 3:9)
The law is not laid down for the just (1 Tim 1:9)
Cf. the more glorious ministry (2 Cor 3:3-18)
Law and commandment
Commandment in the law (Mt 22:36; Jn 8:5)
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets (Mt 22:40)
Law used in parallel to commandment
Sin makes use of the commandment and the law (Rom 7:8, 9)
Holy, righteous, and The law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good (Rom 7:12)
Law of commandment (Eph 2:15; Heb 7:16)
Commandment according to the law (Heb 7:5; 9:19)
Law and sin
Forgiveness of sins through Jesus instead of the law (Acts 13:38)
Sinning against the law (Acts 25:8)
Sinning without the law and sinning under the law (Rom 2:12)
Through the law comes knowledge of sin (Rom 3:20; 7:7)
Sin was in the world before the law was given (Rom 5:13)
Sin is not counted where there is no law (Rom 5:13)
Sin increases when the law came in (Rom 5:20)
Sin has no dominion over us since we are not under law but under grace (Rom 6:14)
We are not to sin because we are not under law but under grace (Rom 6:15)
Our sinful passions are aroused by the law (Rom 7:5)
The law is not sin (Rom 7:7)
Sin lies dead apart from the law (Rom 7:8)
Sin came alive with the law (Rom 7:9)
The law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin (Rom 7:14)
Law of sin (Rom 7:23, 25)
God has done what the law could not do by sending His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin (Rom 8:3)
The power of sin is the law (1 Cor 15:56)
The law is for sinners (1 Tim 1:9)
Committing sin and convicted by the law (Jas 2:9)
Law in contrast to grace
Jn 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:20 – Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
Rom 6:14 – For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Rom 6:15 – What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Gal 2:21 – I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Gal 5:4 – You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Opposing laws
Law of works vs. law of faith (Rom 3:27)
A law vs. law of God (Rom 7:21, 22)
Law of God vs. another law (Rom 7:22, 23)
Another law vs. law of my mind (Rom 7:23)
Law of my mind vs. law of sin (Rom 7:23)
Law of God vs. law of sin (Rom 7:25)
Law of Spirit of life vs. law of sin and death (Rom 8:2)
Subjects of “law”
οὗτος this
Mt 7:12 – "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Rom 2:14 – For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
δύναμις power
1 Cor 15:56 – The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Verbs with “law” as Subject
λέγω say
Rom 3:19 – Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Rom 7:7 – What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
1 Cor 9:8 – Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
1 Cor 14:34 – the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.
εἰμί be, exist
Rom 4:15 – For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
Rom 5:13 – for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Rom 7:14 – For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Gal 3:12 – But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them."
Gal 5:23 – gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
δίδωμι give
Jn 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Gal 3:21 – Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
προφητεύω prophesy
Mt 11:13 – For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John,
κρεμάννυμι hang on
Mt 22:40 – On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
λύω loose
Jn 7:23 – If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
κρίνω decide
Jn 7:51 – "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
κατεργάζομαι produce
Rom 4:15 – For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
παρεισέρχομαι come in
Rom 5:20 – Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
κυριεύω lord over
Rom 7:1 – Or do you not know, brothers–for I am speaking to those who know the law–that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
ἀντιστρατεύομαι wage war against
Rom 7:23 – but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
ἐλευθερόω set free
Rom 8:2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
ἀκυρόω nullify
Gal 3:17 – This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
γίνομαι be
Gal 3:24 – So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
πληρόω fulfill
Gal 5:14 – For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
κεῖμαι lay
1 Tim 1:9 – understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
τελειόω perfect
Heb 7:19 – (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
καθίστημι appoint
Heb 7:28 – For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
δύναμαι be able
Heb 10:1 – For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Verbs with “law” as Object
δίδωμι give
Jn 7:19 – Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"
Heb 8:10 – For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Heb 10:16 – "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
ποιέω do
Jn 7:19 – Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"
Gal 5:3 – I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
γινώσκω know
Jn 7:49 – But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."
Rom 7:1 – Or do you not know, brothers–for I am speaking to those who know the law–that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
ἔχω have
Jn 19:7 – The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God."
Rom 2:14 – For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
τηρέω keep
Acts 15:5 – But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses."
Jas 2:10 – For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
φυλάσσω obey
Acts 21:24 – take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.
Gal 6:13 – For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
τελέω finish
Rom 2:27 – Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
Jas 2:8 – If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
καταργέω nullify
Rom 3:31 – Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Eph 2:15 – by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
καταλύω throw down
Mt 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.
λαμβάνω take
Acts 7:53 – you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it."
πράσσω demand
Rom 2:25 – For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
ἵστημι stand
Rom 3:31 – Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
εὑρίσκω find
Rom 7:21 – So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
δουλεύω serve
Rom 7:25 – Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
διώκω pursue
Rom 9:31 – but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
πληρόω fulfill
Rom 13:8 – Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
ἀκούω hear
Gal 4:21 – Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
θέλω will
Gal 4:21 – Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
ἀναπληρόω fulfill
Gal 6:2 – Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
ἀθετέω reject
Heb 10:28 – Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
καταλαλέω speak against
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
κρίνω judge
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Verbs with “law” as Indirect Object
ὑποτάσσω put in subjection
Rom 8:7 – For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Adjectives Modifying νόμος law
ὅλος all
Mt 22:40 – On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
Gal 5:3 – I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
Jas 2:10 – For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
πᾶς all
Mt 11:13 – For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John,
Gal 5:14 – For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
ὑμέτερος your
Jn 8:17 – In your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
πατρῷος ancestral
Acts 22:3 – "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.
ποῖος grass
Rom 3:27 – Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
ἕτερος change
Rom 7:23 – but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
γίνομαι be
Gal 3:17 – This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
τέλειος perfect
Jas 1:25 – But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
βασιλικός royal
Jas 2:8 – If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
Adverbs modifying “law”
καί also
1 Cor 9:8 – Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
1 Cor 14:34 – the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.
μόνος only
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Words modified by “law”
ἐπαναπαύομαι rest on
Rom 2:17 – But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God
δέω tie
Rom 7:2 – Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
θανατόω put to death
Rom 7:4 – Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
σύμφημι agree with
Rom 7:16 – Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
συνήδομαι delight in agreement
Rom 7:22 – For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
ἀντιστρατεύομαι wage war against
Rom 7:23 – but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
ἀποθνήσκω die
Gal 2:19 – For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
“Law” is…
ἁμαρτία sin
Rom 7:7 – What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
ἅγιος holy
Rom 7:12 – So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
πνευματικός spiritual
Rom 7:14 – For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
παιδαγωγός guardian
Gal 3:24 – So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
καλός "beautiful, good"
1 Tim 1:8 – Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,
… of “law”
ἔργον work
Rom 2:15 – They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:28 – For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:2 – Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
Gal 3:5 – Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith–
Gal 3:10 – For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."
παραβάτης transgressor
Rom 2:25 – For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
Rom 2:27 – Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
Jas 2:11 – For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
ποιητής doer
Rom 2:13 – For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
δικαίωμα regulation
Rom 2:26 – So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Rom 8:4 – in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
βαρύς burdensome
Mt 23:23 – "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
ἐθίζω be accustomed
Lk 2:27 – And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law,
κεραία least stroke of a pen
Lk 16:17 – But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.
ἀνάγνωσις reading
Acts 13:15 – After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it."
ζηλωτής zealot
Acts 21:20 – And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,
ἀκρίβεια thoroughness
Acts 22:3 – "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.
ζήτημα question for discussion
Acts 23:29 – I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.
ἀκροατής hearer
Rom 2:13 – For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
ὁ the
Rom 2:14 – For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
παράβασις transgression
Rom 2:23 – You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.
ἀδύνατος impossible
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
τέλος end
Rom 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
πλήρωμα fullness
Rom 13:10 – Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
βιβλίον scroll
Gal 3:10 – For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."
κατάρα curse
Gal 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 hanged on a tree"–
μετάθεσις removal
Heb 7:12 – For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.
“Law” of …
Μωσεύς Moses
Lk 2:22 – And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
Lk 24:44 – Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
Jn 7:23 – If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
Acts 15:5 – But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses."
Acts 28:23 – When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.
1 Cor 9:9 – For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
Heb 10:28 – Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
κύριος lord
Lk 2:23 – (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord")
Lk 2:24 – and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
Lk 2:39 – And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
ἐγώ I, we
Jn 7:51 – "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
Heb 8:10 – For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Heb 10:16 – "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
θεός God
Rom 7:22 – For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Rom 7:25 – Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Rom 8:7 – For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
ἁμαρτία sin
Rom 7:23 – but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Rom 7:25 – Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Rom 8:2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
σύ you
Jn 10:34 – Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
Jn 18:31 – Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."
αὐτός he, she, it
Jn 15:25 – But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
Acts 23:29 – I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.
ἐντολή command
Eph 2:15 – by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
Heb 7:16 – who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.
Ἰουδαῖος Jews
Acts 25:8 – Paul argued in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense."
πίστις faith
Rom 3:27 – Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
ἀνήρ man
Rom 7:2 – Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
νοῦς mind
Rom 7:23 – but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
πνεῦμα spirit
Rom 8:2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
θάνατος death, immortal
Rom 8:2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
δικαιοσύνη righteousness
Rom 9:31 – but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
Χριστός Christ
Gal 6:2 – Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
ἐλευθερία freedom
Jas 2:12 – So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
… and law
προφήτης prophet
Mt 11:13 – For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John,
τόπος open sea
Acts 6:13 – and they set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,
“Law” and …
προφήτης prophet
Mt 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.
Mt 7:12 – "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Mt 22:40 – On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
Lk 16:16 – "The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.
Lk 24:44 – Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
Acts 13:15 – After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it."
Rom 3:21 – But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it–
ψαλμός Psalms
Lk 24:44 – Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
Prepositions with “law”
ἐν in, among, with, during
Mt 12:5 – Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?
Mt 22:36 – "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"
Lk 2:23 – (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord")
Lk 2:24 – and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
Lk 10:26 – He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?"
Lk 24:44 – Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
Jn 1:45 – Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Jn 8:5 – Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
Jn 8:17 – In your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
Jn 10:34 – Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
Jn 15:25 – But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
Rom 2:12 – For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Rom 2:20 – an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth–
Rom 2:23 – You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.
Rom 3:19 – Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Rom 7:23 – but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
1 Cor 9:9 – For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
1 Cor 14:21 – In the Law it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal 5:4 – You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Phil 3:6 – as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness, under the law blameless.
κατά against, according to
Lk 2:22 – And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
Lk 2:39 – And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
Jn 18:31 – Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."
Jn 19:7 – The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God."
Acts 6:13 – and they set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,
Acts 21:28 – crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place."
Acts 22:12 – "And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,
Acts 23:3 – Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
Acts 24:14 – But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
Phil 3:5 – circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
Heb 7:5 – And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.
Heb 7:16 – who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.
Heb 8:4 – Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
Heb 9:19 – For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Heb 9:22 – Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Heb 10:8 – When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),
ὑπό by, under
Rom 3:21 – But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it–
Rom 6:14 – For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Rom 6:15 – What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
1 Cor 9:20 – To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
Gal 3:23 – Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.
Gal 4:4 – But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
Gal 4:5 – to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Gal 4:21 – Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
Gal 5:18 – But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Jas 2:9 – But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
διά through, for the sake of
Rom 2:12 – For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:27 – Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 7:5 – For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Rom 7:7 – What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
Gal 2:19 – For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
Gal 2:21 – I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Jas 2:12 – So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
ἐκ of, out of, from
Jn 12:34 – So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
Rom 2:18 – and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;
Rom 4:14 – For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Rom 10:5 – For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
Gal 3:18 – For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
Gal 3:21 – Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Phil 3:9 – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
ἀπό from
Mt 5:18 – For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Acts 28:23 – When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.
Rom 7:2 – Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
Rom 7:3 – Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
Rom 7:6 – But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
εἰς to, toward, into, for
Acts 25:8 – Paul argued in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense."
Rom 9:31 – but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
Jas 1:25 – But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
χωρίς by itself
Rom 3:21 – But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it–
Rom 7:8 – But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law, sin lies dead.
Rom 7:9 – I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
παρά from, with, beside
Acts 18:13 – saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law."
περί about, around
Acts 18:15 – But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things."
ἄχρι until
Rom 5:13 – for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
ὡς as
1 Cor 9:20 – To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
μετά with, after
Heb 7:28 – For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
Words related to “law”
“Lawyer”
Mt 22:35 – And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
Lk 7:30 – but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
Lk 10:25 – And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Lk 11:45 – One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also."
Lk 11:46 – And he said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
Lk 11:52 – Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."
Lk 14:3 – And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"
Tit 3:9 – But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
Tit 3:13 – Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing.
“Teacher of the law”
Lk 5:17 – On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal.
Acts 5:34 – But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while.
1 Tim 1:7 – desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
“Subject to the law”
Acts 19:39 – But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
1 Cor 9:21 – To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
“Legislate”
Heb 7:11 – Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?
Heb 8:6 – But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
“Lawfully”
1 Tim 1:8 – Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,
2 Tim 2:5 – An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
“Giving of law”
Rom 9:4 – They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
“Lawgiver”
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?