'Law' in the Bible
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Yes, LORD, in the path of your judgments we wait; your name and your Law are the soul's desire.
A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment [administering the law],A strength to those who drive back the battle at the gate.
For he says: “Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there.”
Then the word of the Lord came to them:“Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there,”so they go stumbling backward,to be broken, trapped, and captured.
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
They seek me day after day; they want to know my requirements, like a nation that does what is right and does not reject the law of their God. They ask me for just decrees; they want to be near God.
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You do not see it?Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’Hear this [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins] you find something you desire [to do],And you force your hired servants to work [instead of stopping all work, as the law teaches].
No one brings a lawsuit fairly, and no one goes to law honestly; they have relied on empty arguments and they tell lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.
“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit which is upon you [writing the law of God on the heart], and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouths of your [true, spiritual] children, nor from the mouth of your children’s children,” says the Lord, “from now and forever.”
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- Law's (6 instances in 2 translations)
- Law-teachers (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Law-transgressor (2 instances in 1 translation)
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- Lawbreakers (3 instances in 3 translations)
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- Lawfully (2 instances in 8 translations)
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