Thematic Bible: The law
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Ark » In the tabernacle. Called the ark » Contents of » The law
“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there as a witness against you.
Then he took the testimony and put it into the ark, and attached the poles to the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.”
Divination » The law » Forbade to the israelites the practice of
"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying.
Divination » The law » Forbade seeking to
‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.
For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.
Divination » The law » Punished with death those who used
“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
‘Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.’”
Divination » The law » Punished those who sought to
‘As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
Jamin » Priest » expounded » The law » returned exciles
Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, explained the law to the people while the people remained in their place.
Keep » The law
But he who is a companion of
It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,
Christian Liberty » Is freedom from » The law
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
Sin » The law » By its strictness stirs up
for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
Sin » The law » Is transgressed by every
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
Sin » The law » Gives knowledge of
because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
Sin » The law » Is the strength of
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;
Sin » The law » Made to restrain
realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,
Sin » The law » Curses those guilty of
For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”
Sin » The law » Shows exceeding sinfulness of
Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.