Limitless Word
νόμοςnómos
GreekG3551197 occurrences (KJV)

law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle)

KJV renders it: law

Where it appears(showing the first 158 of 197)

  • Matt 5:17“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
  • Matt 5:18For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
  • Matt 7:12Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 11:13For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
  • Matt 12:5Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?
  • Matt 22:36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”
  • Matt 22:40The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
  • Matt 23:23“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
  • Luke 2:22When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord
  • Luke 2:23(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),
  • Luke 2:24and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”
  • Luke 2:27He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,
  • Luke 2:39When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
  • Luke 10:26He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
  • Luke 16:16The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
  • Luke 16:17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
  • Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
  • John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
  • John 1:45Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
  • John 7:19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
  • John 7:23If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
  • John 7:49But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is accursed.”
  • John 7:51“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
  • John 8:5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”
  • John 8:17It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
  • John 10:34Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
  • John 12:34The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”
  • John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
  • John 18:31Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,”
  • John 19:7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
  • Acts 6:13and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
  • Acts 7:53You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
  • Acts 13:15After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”
  • Acts 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Acts 15:5But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
  • Acts 15:24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
  • Acts 18:13saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
  • Acts 18:15but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
  • Acts 21:20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
  • Acts 21:24Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
  • Acts 21:28crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”
  • Acts 22:3“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
  • Acts 22:12One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
  • Acts 23:3Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
  • Acts 23:29I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
  • Acts 24:6He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
  • Acts 24:14But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
  • Acts 25:8while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”
  • Acts 28:23When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
  • Rom 2:12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
  • Rom 2:13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
  • Rom 2:14(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
  • Rom 2:15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
  • Rom 2:17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
  • Rom 2:18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
  • Rom 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
  • Rom 2:23You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
  • Rom 2:25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
  • Rom 2:26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
  • Rom 2:27Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
  • Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
  • Rom 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 3:21But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
  • Rom 3:27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
  • Rom 3:28We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
  • Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • Rom 4:13For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
  • Rom 4:14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
  • Rom 4:15For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
  • Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
  • Rom 5:13For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
  • Rom 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
  • Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
  • Rom 7:1Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
  • Rom 7:2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
  • Rom 7:3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
  • Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
  • Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
  • Rom 7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
  • Rom 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
  • Rom 7:8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
  • Rom 7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
  • Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
  • Rom 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
  • Rom 7:16But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
  • Rom 7:21I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
  • Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
  • Rom 7:23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
  • Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.
  • Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
  • Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
  • Rom 8:4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
  • Rom 9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
  • Rom 9:32Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
  • Rom 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
  • Rom 10:5For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”
  • Rom 13:8Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  • Rom 13:10Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
  • 1 Cor 7:39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 9:8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
  • 1 Cor 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
  • 1 Cor 9:20To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
  • 1 Cor 14:21In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.”
  • 1 Cor 14:34Let the women be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
  • 1 Cor 15:56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
  • Gal 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
  • Gal 2:19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
  • Gal 2:21I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
  • Gal 3:2I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
  • Gal 3:5He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
  • Gal 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
  • Gal 3:11Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
  • Gal 3:12The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”
  • Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
  • Gal 3:17Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
  • Gal 3:18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
  • Gal 3:19What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
  • Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
  • Gal 3:23But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
  • Gal 3:24So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
  • Gal 4:5that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
  • Gal 4:21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
  • Gal 5:3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
  • Gal 5:4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
  • Gal 5:14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Gal 5:18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
  • Gal 5:23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  • Gal 6:2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
  • Gal 6:13For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
  • Eph 2:15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
  • Phil 3:5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
  • Phil 3:6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • 1 Tim 1:8But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,
  • 1 Tim 1:9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
  • Heb 7:5They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,
  • Heb 7:12For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
  • Heb 7:16who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
  • Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 7:28For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
  • Heb 8:4For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
  • Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Heb 9:19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
  • Heb 9:22According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
  • Heb 10:1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
  • Heb 10:8Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
  • Heb 10:16“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,
  • Heb 10:28A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
  • Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
  • Jas 2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
  • Jas 2:9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
  • Jas 2:10For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
  • Jas 2:11For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
  • Jas 2:12So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
  • Jas 4:11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.