9 Bible Verses about Law, Ten Commandments

And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport.

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right; honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise), that it may be well with you and that you may live long on earth.

You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence,

You have heard how it used to be said, Do not commit adultery.

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.