Bible Verses about “laws of man”

“For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.”

“¶ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”

“¶ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.”

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”

“Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.”

“For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.”

“For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:”

“Wherefore [ye] must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.”

“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”

“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.”

“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.”

“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].”

“¶ And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.”

“As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”

“The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.”

“Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”

“Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”

“¶ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;”

“For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:”

“Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”

“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”

“¶ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.”

“For there is no respect of persons with God.”

“To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:”

“¶ Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,”

“Who will render to every man according to his deeds:”

“¶ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”

“And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?”

“But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.”

“Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)”

“For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:”

“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”

“But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;”

“In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”

“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:”

“Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;”

“But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:”

“(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”

“But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.”

“For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.”

“Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?”

“Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?”

“Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?”

“For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.”

“Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?”

“And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?”

“For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;”

“¶ Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,”

“And knowest [his] will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;”

“And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,”