We are now well into April, and since I run a seasonal business, my time availability has been seriously reduced. Posting will therefor be sparse at best.
In the mean time, I felt that it would be good to compile over time a list of passages that have often been used when discussing our question. This list is still in the making. Should you have some I miss, or have not gotten to yet, feel free to comment.
When added, these will be put in order as they appear in the Christian Bible.
Gen 15:6 “Then he believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.”
Deut 12:32 “Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.”
Deut 13 – link to complete quote in NASB
Psalm 119 – The whole chapter is made up of 22 love poems centered on the Mosaic Law.
Psalm 119:152 “From studying your laws, I found out long ago that you made them to last forever.” CEV
Psalm 119:160 “All you say can be trusted; your teachings are true and will last forever. “
Jeremiah 31 – Link to complete quote in NASB
Matt 5:17-20 “
“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplish. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Mark 7:1-23 -Link to complete quote in NASB
John 14:15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
John 14:21 “He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
Acts 2 – Link to complete quote in NASB
Acts 2:42 “They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to [the] prayer[s].” (“The prayers” is the actual literal translation from the Greek, but usually translated as simply “prayer” in English Bibles.)
Acts 6:13-14 “And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”
Acts 10-11
Acts 15
Acts 15:5,10,19-21
Acts 21:17-26
Acts 21:27-29
Acts 24:14-16
Acts 25:8
Acts 26:20
Acts 28:17-18
Acts 28:22
Romans 2:14-15
Romans 3:19,20
Romans 6:14-15
Romans 7:7, 12, 14, 22
Romans 10:4
Romans 14
2 Corinthians 3:3, 6-18
Gal 3:22-25 “But the Scripture shut up all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept under Law, having been shut up to the faith about to be revealed. So that the Law has become a trainer of us until Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But faith coming, we are no longer under a trainer.”
Eph 2:15 “…having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the law of commandments contained in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace between them;”
Colossians 2:14 “…blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.”
1 Timothy 1:8-11
Heb. 10:1
To be continued . . .
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