New Testament References about the Law of God

1. Matthew 5:17, 18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not
come to destroy, but to fulfil.

2. Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall
in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

3. Matthew 5:40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have
thy cloke also.

4. Matthew 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

5. Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter
against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

6. Matthew 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

7. Matthew 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the
temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

8. Matthew 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

9. Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

10. Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and
anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and
faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

11. Luke 2:22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were
accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;

12. Luke 2:23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be
called holy to the Lord;)

13. Luke 2:24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A
pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

14. Luke 2:27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the
child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,

15. Luke 2:39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they
returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
16. Luke 5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were
Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee,
and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

17. Luke 10:26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? How readest thou?

18. Luke 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the
mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against
her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

19. Luke 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the
mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against
her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

20. Luke 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the
mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against
her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

21. Luke 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the
mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against
her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

22. Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is
preached, and every man presseth into it.

23. Luke 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

24. Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was
yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in
the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

25. John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

26. John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses
in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

27. John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye
about to kill me?

28. John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye
about to kill me?

29. John 7:23 If a man on the Sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not
be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath
day?
30. John 7:49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

31. John 7:51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

32. John 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest
thou?

33. John 8:17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.

34. John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

35. John 12:34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for
ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?

36. John 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their
law, They hated me without a cause.

37. John 18:13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was
the high priest that same year.

38. John 18:31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law.
The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:

39. John 19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because
he made himself the Son of God.

40. John 19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because
he made himself the Son of God.

41. Acts 5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of
the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a
little space;

42. Acts 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous
words against this holy place, and the law:

43. Acts 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

44. Acts 13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent
unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people,
say on.

45. Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not
be justified by the law of Moses.
46. Acts 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That
it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

47. Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled
you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to
whom we gave no such commandment:

48. Acts 18:13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

49. Acts 18:15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I
will be no judge of such matters.

50. Acts 19:38 Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter
against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.

51. Acts 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest,
brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the
law:

52. Acts 21:24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they
may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed
concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

53. Acts 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every
where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into
the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

54. Acts 22:3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up
in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of
the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

55. Acts 22:12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all
the Jews which dwelt there,

56. Acts 23:3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to
judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

57. Acts 23:29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing
laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

58. Acts 24:6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have
judged according to our law.

59. Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship
I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
60. Acts 25:8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against
the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.

61. Acts 28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his
lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them
concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till
evening.

62. Romans 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as
many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

63. Romans 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law
shall be justified.

64. Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things
contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

65. Romans 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also
bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

66. Romans 2:17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of
God,

67. Romans 2:18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being
instructed out of the law;

68. Romans 2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of
knowledge and of the truth in the law.

69. Romans 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest
thou God?

70. Romans 2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker
of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

71. Romans 2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his
uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

72. Romans 2:27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee,
who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

73. Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are
under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before
God.
74. Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

75. Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets;

76. Romans 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the
law of faith.

77. Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the
law.

78. Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the
law.

79. Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham,
or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

80. Romans 4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise
made of none effect:

81. Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

82. Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might
be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the
faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

83. Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no
law.

84. Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin
abounded, grace did much more abound:

85. Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but
under grace.

86. Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
God forbid.

87. Romans 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law
hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

88. Romans 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so
long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
89. Romans 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be
called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no
adulteress, though she be married to another man.

90. Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of
Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that
we should bring forth fruit unto God.

91. Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did
work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

92. Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;
that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

93. Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin,
but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

94. Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of
concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

95. Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin
revived, and I died.

96. Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

97. Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

98. Romans 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

99. Romans 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

100. Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

101. Romans 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

102. Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself
serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

103. Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the
law of sin and death.

104. Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
105. Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit.

106. Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the
law of God, neither indeed can be.

107. Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the
covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

108. Romans 9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained
to the law of righteousness.

109. Romans 9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works
of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

110. Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that
believeth.

111. Romans 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man
which doeth those things shall live by them.

112. Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another
hath fulfilled the law.

113. Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the
law.

114. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the
unjust, and not before the saints?

115. 1 Corinthians 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

116. 1 Corinthians 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law
one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to
be defrauded?

117. 1 Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her
husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

118. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

119. 1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth
of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

120. 1 Corinthians 9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to
them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
121. 1 Corinthians 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law
to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

122. 1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will
I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

123. 1 Corinthians 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted
unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

124. 1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

125. Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the
faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the
faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be
justified.

126. Galatians 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

127. Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law,
then Christ is dead in vain.

128. Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the
law, or by the hearing of faith?

129. Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among
you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

130. Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is
written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of
the law to do them.

131. Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident:
for, The just shall live by faith.

132. Galatians 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in
them.

133. Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

134. Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in
Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it
should make the promise of none effect.

135. Galatians 3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God
gave it to Abraham by promise.
136. Galatians 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions,
till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in
the hand of a mediator.

137. Galatians 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had
been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the
law.

138. Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith
which should afterwards be revealed.

139. Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we
might be justified by faith.

140. Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of
a woman, made under the law,

141. Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons.

142. Galatians 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

143. Galatians 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to
do the whole law.

144. Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the
law; ye are fallen from grace.

145. Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself.

146. Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

147. Galatians 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

148. Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

149. Galatians 6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire
to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

150. Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

151. Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
152. Philippians 3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness
which is in the law, blameless.

153. Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the
law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

154. 1 Timothy 1:7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say,
nor whereof they affirm.

155. 1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

156. 1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the
lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for
murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

157. Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings
about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

158. Hebrews 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the
priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of
their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

159. Hebrews 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the
people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the
order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

160. Hebrews 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change
also of the law.

161. Hebrews 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the
power of an endless life.

162. Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did;
by the which we draw nigh unto God.

163. Hebrews 7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of
the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

164. Hebrews 8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are
priests that offer gifts according to the law:

165. Hebrews 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to
the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop,
and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
166. Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no remission.

167. Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very
image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

168. Hebrews 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and
offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the
law;

169. Hebrews 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three
witnesses:

170. James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he
being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

171. James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

172. James 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law
as transgressors.

173. James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is
guilty of all.

174. James 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou
commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

175. James 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother,
and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the
law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

176. 1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the
transgression of the law.