Quotes about God's law

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then

This definition naturally establishes the fact that any domination of another human spirit is violation of God's natural law.

Too often, however, we "honor" God by creating our own law, making ourselves more pious than Him. God says, "Don't eat," and we say, "Don't touch." God says, "Give ten percent," and we say, "Give twenty percent." Like the Pharisees before us, we add to God's law, then expect Him to pat us on the back. This problem of seeking a piety greater than God's, however, gets no uglier than when we apply it to ourselves.

The Seventh Year In Deuteronomy 15, there was a law God gave the people of Israel that said every seventh year they had to release any Hebrew slaves. If you were Hebrew and owed another person money that you couldn't repay, they could take you in as a slave and make you work full-time until you paid them back. But every seventh year, if you were a part of God's chosen people, you had a special advantage. You got released. No matter

if there is no God, everything is lawful

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

The Bible speaks not of God's laws, as if many of them, but of God's Law as a single whole.

so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves. You

when we think the curse for violating God's Law is too severe, it's because we don't understand God or the nature of sin. God