Bible Verses About Following Laws
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for following laws, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,183 votes, led by 1 Peter 2:13-17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Following Laws
1 Peter 2:13-1734 votes
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Romans 13:1-733 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Acts 5:2932 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Galatians 5:22-2329 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 13:227 votes
Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
Revelation 1:127 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Romans 13:125 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Ezekiel 36:2724 votes
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Romans 3:2024 votes
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.
Psalms 119:223 votes
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
James 1:2523 votes
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.
Ephesians 6:422 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:621 votes
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Titus 3:121 votes
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Psalms 119:60-6220 votes
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
1 Peter 5:720 votes
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Deuteronomy 4:1-13:1819 votes
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
Deuteronomy 4:219 votes
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Romans 6:219 votes
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 13:1019 votes
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Hebrews 13:20-2119 votes
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Deuteronomy 6:318 votes
Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 30:1618 votes
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Psalms 119:1-130:818 votes
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Psalms 119:3018 votes
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
What does the Bible say about following laws?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 2:13-17 on the subject of following laws. Across 2,183 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 13:1-7, Acts 5:29, Galatians 5:22-23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.