100 Bible Verses About Divine Law

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.

These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments.

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of his statutes to Israel.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly.

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord.

But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.