Bible Verses About Law
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for law, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,054 votes, led by Romans 7:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Law
Romans 7:12182 votes
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:7160 votes
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.
1 John 3:4148 votes
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
John 1:17133 votes
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 1:8-10129 votes
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Luke 16:17124 votes
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Acts 5:29123 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Romans 13:1116 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.
James 2:10108 votes
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Romans 3:20101 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.
Romans 10:492 votes
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Galatians 2:1690 votes
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.
Psalms 19:7-983 votes
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
Romans 13:1078 votes
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Matthew 5:17-4566 votes
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Matthew 7:1266 votes
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.
Galatians 5:1466 votes
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 6:264 votes
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
1 John 5:362 votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Isaiah 33:2261 votes
For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
Romans 3:3158 votes
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Galatians 5:22-2358 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 13:1-1457 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.
Matthew 5:1756 votes
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Galatians 2:2156 votes
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
What does the Bible say about law?
Readers most often cite Romans 7:12 on the subject of law. Across 6,054 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 7:7, 1 John 3:4, John 1:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.