Verses¶
Primary Verses -- Core "Law of ___" Passages¶
Galatians 6:1-5 -- "The Law of Christ" (6:2)¶
6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
Extended context (Galatians 5:13-26) -- Love-fulfillment leading to "law of Christ":
5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 5:16 [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Broader Galatians 6 context (6:6-18) -- Circumcision contrast:
6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 6:12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. 6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
1 Corinthians 9:19-23 -- "Ennomos Christou" (9:21)¶
9:19 For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some. 9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].
Broader context (9:1-18) -- Paul's apostolic freedom:
9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 9:8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Romans 7:21-8:8 -- "Law of My Mind," "Law of Sin," "Law of the Spirit of Life," "Law of Sin and Death"¶
Romans 7:21-25:
7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8:1-8:
8:1 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 8:6 For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. 8:7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Earlier Romans 7 context (7:1-14) -- Marriage analogy and law character:
7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband. 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 7:7 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. 7:12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 3:27-31 -- "Law of Faith" vs. "Law of Works" (3:27)¶
3:27 Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 3:29 [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 3:30 Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Earlier context (3:19-26) -- All under sin, justified by grace:
3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 3:20 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. 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 3:22 Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 3:25 Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 3:26 To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Romans 9:30-10:4 -- "Law of Righteousness" (9:31)¶
9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 9:32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 10:4 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
James 1:22-27 -- "Perfect Law of Liberty" (1:25)¶
1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 1:25 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. 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain. 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
James 2:8-13 -- "Law of Liberty" as Judgment Standard (2:12)¶
2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all. 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Key Cross-Reference Passages¶
John 13:34-35 -- "A New Commandment"¶
13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 13:35 By this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 15:10-14 -- "Keep My Commandments"¶
15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full. 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
2 John 1:5-6 -- "New Commandment...From the Beginning"¶
1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Matthew 5:17-19 -- Jesus Did Not Come to Destroy the Law¶
5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 19:17-19 -- "Keep the Commandments" (Lists Decalogue)¶
19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, 19:19 Honour thy father and [thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 22:36-40 -- Two Great Commandments¶
22:36 Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law? 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 22:38 This is the first and great commandment. 22:39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
1 Corinthians 7:19 -- Circumcision vs. Commandments of God¶
7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Romans 7:12, 14 -- The Law Is Holy, Spiritual¶
7:12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 13:8-10 -- Love Fulfills the Decalogue¶
13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
2 Corinthians 3:17 -- Where the Spirit Is, There Is Liberty¶
3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
Galatians 5:1 -- Liberty in Christ¶
5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 2:4 -- Liberty Spied Out¶
2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
1 Peter 2:16 -- Liberty Not for Maliciousness¶
2:16 As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
2 Peter 2:19 -- False Liberty¶
2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
1 Corinthians 10:29 -- Liberty of Conscience¶
10:29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another [man's] conscience?
1 John 3:4 -- Sin Is the Transgression of the Law¶
3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
1 John 5:3 -- Love = Keeping Commandments¶
5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
James 4:12 -- One Lawgiver¶
4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
OT Background Passages¶
Psalm 19:7-9 -- "The Law of the LORD Is Perfect"¶
19:7 The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple. 19:8 The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes. 19:9 The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.
Psalm 119:45 -- "Walk at Liberty"¶
119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. 119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. 119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. 119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Psalm 119:97 -- "O How Love I Thy Law!"¶
119:97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.
Psalm 119:142 -- "Thy Law Is the Truth"¶
119:142 Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth.
Jeremiah 31:33 -- Law Written in Hearts (New Covenant)¶
31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezekiel 36:26-27 -- Spirit Causes Obedience to Statutes¶
36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 36:27 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].
Leviticus 19:18 -- Love Thy Neighbour¶
19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus 25:10 -- Proclaim Liberty¶
25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Isaiah 61:1-2 -- Liberty to the Captives¶
61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound; 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Cross-Testament Parallels (from tool output)¶
For Galatians 6:2 ("law of Christ")¶
Top NT parallels: Gal 5:4, Rom 7:25, Rom 7:4, Rom 15:7, Rom 13:8, 1 Cor 9:21, Rom 8:2, Rom 10:4, Gal 3:24, Gal 5:14 - Key connection: Rom 13:8 ("fulfilled the law" via love) and Gal 5:14 ("all the law fulfilled in...love thy neighbour")
For 1 Corinthians 9:21 ("ennomos Christou")¶
Top NT parallels: Rom 7:25, Gal 5:4, Rom 8:2, Gal 3:24, Gal 2:21, Gal 4:21, Rom 7:4, Rom 2:13, Gal 2:19, Rom 10:4, Gal 6:2 - Key connection: Gal 6:2 reciprocally parallels 1 Cor 9:21 -- both reference Christ-relationship and law
For Romans 8:2 ("law of the Spirit of life" / "law of sin and death")¶
Top NT parallels: Rom 6:23, Rom 5:21, Rom 8:10, Rom 7:25, 1 Pet 3:18, Rom 8:11, Rom 5:17, 1 Cor 15:56, Rom 6:22 - Key connection: Rom 6:23 ("wages of sin is death; gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ") mirrors the two "laws" of 8:2
For Romans 3:27 ("law of faith" / "law of works")¶
Top NT parallels: Gal 3:5, Jas 2:20, Rom 14:1, Jas 2:17, Rom 9:32, Rom 4:5, Jas 2:26, Rom 14:23, Jas 2:14 - Key connection: Rom 9:32 ("they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law") parallels the works/faith contrast
For James 1:25 ("perfect law of liberty")¶
Top NT parallels: Rom 2:13, Jas 2:12, Rom 3:20, 1 Tim 1:9, Jas 2:10, Jas 4:11, Jas 1:22, Heb 7:19 - Key connection: Rom 2:13 ("not the hearers of the law are just...but the doers of the law") directly parallels James' hearer/doer contrast
For Romans 9:31 ("law of righteousness")¶
Top NT parallels: Gal 3:21, Rom 3:21, Rom 9:6, Rom 8:4, 1 Tim 1:9, Rom 2:17, Rom 4:13, Rom 9:30, Rom 10:4 - Key connection: Rom 10:4 ("Christ is the end of the law for righteousness") directly continues the argument from 9:31
Additional Context Passages (from concept_context.py)¶
Same-Author Connections for Gal 6:2 (Paul)¶
- Gal 5:14 -- "All the law is fulfilled in one word...love thy neighbour" (FULFILLMENT + LAW)
- Gal 4:4 -- "Made under the law" (FULFILLMENT + LAW)
- Rom 13:10 -- "Love is the fulfilling of the law" (FULFILLMENT + LAW)
- Rom 13:8 -- "He that loveth another hath fulfilled the law" (FULFILLMENT + LAW)
- Rom 10:4 -- "Christ is the end of the law" (LAW + MESSIAH)
Same-Book Connections for Rom 3:27¶
- Rom 3:28 -- "Justified by faith without the deeds of the law" (FAITH + LAW)
- Rom 3:31 -- "We establish the law" (FAITH + LAW)
- Rom 4:13 -- "Not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith" (FAITH + LAW)
- Rom 9:32 -- "Not by faith, but by the works of the law" (FAITH + LAW)
- Rom 10:4 -- "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth" (FAITH + LAW)
Same-Book Connections for Rom 9:31¶
- Rom 10:4-5 -- Christ as telos of the law for righteousness; Moses' description (LAW + RIGHTEOUSNESS)
- Rom 2:13 -- "Doers of the law shall be justified" (LAW + RIGHTEOUSNESS)
- Rom 2:26 -- "Uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law" (LAW + RIGHTEOUSNESS)
- Rom 3:21 -- "Righteousness of God without the law...witnessed by the law" (LAW + RIGHTEOUSNESS)
- Rom 8:4 -- "The righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us" (LAW + RIGHTEOUSNESS)
Research gathered: 2026-02-26 Study: law-23-law-of-christ