Today we will be dealing with 20 Bible verses about the law.
Law is defined as the rules and regulations set aside to govern the affairs of a community, state, or nation. As we have laws in the country, so there are laws in the kingdom of heaven. While we may not be talking about the Kingdom laws, we will pitch our tent around the law that guides the affairs of a country.
Over time, we have seen people disobey the law of their country. It would interest you to know that some Christians also hide under the disguise of Christianity to bypass the law of their country or state. This is not good enough.
As believers, we are subordinate to our state or country. And Christ taught us to obey constituted authority. It would be recalled that even Christ paid tax when he was on earth. How will a country or state declare a curfew and you people will still defy the law to go out? how can a Christian refuse to pay tax just because you have paid your tithe?
In the book of Mark 12:17 Well, then,” Jesus said, “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.” His reply completely amazed them. Your tithe and tax are two different things and they serve different purposes. As a citizen of a sovereign state, you owe your country duty of care as much as the country owes you.
Your tax is to your country while the tax is a covenant between you and God. So you should not refuse to pay tax simply because you have paid your tithe and vice versa. The law of your country is supreme and it must be obeyed. To better understand the supremacy of law, we have curated a list of 20 Bible verses about the law.
1. Deuteronomy 6:6-7
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
2. Deuteronomy 30:16
For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
3. Psalm 103:17-18
But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
4. Deuteronomy 10:12-13
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
5. Joshua 22:5
But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
6. Romans 7:7
What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.
7. Acts 13:38-39
Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.
8. Galatians 2:15-16
We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
9. Matthew 5:19
Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
10. Hebrews 13:20-21
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
11. Genesis 26:4-5
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.
12. 1 Timothy 1:8-10
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 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, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.
13. Romans 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.
14. Romans 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,
15. 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.
16. Romans 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
17. Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.
18. Galatians 3:24
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
19. Luke 20:25
He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.
20. Galatians 5:4
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
