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God's Laws for the New Testament

There are a lot of people and religions which teach many different doctrinal errors about God's low  which applies to people today.  Those teachings vary from 'there are no laws which apply to us today' to 'God will destroy you if you ever disobey any part of my law' with many people and religions claiming that God has to enforce 'their law'.  This Study provides a high-level teaching about what the word of God  actually says about law.  That is what God will use to judge everyone.  Therefore, what the word of God  actually says is all that we need to worry about and all other teaching, about laws,  are to be rejected.

We find the word law  occurring 523 times in 459 verses of the Bible and 223 times in 172 verses of the New Testament.  Please see the following notes about this word: Matthew 5:17; Matthew 5:18; Matthew 5:40; Matthew 7:12; Matthew 10:35; Matthew 11:13; Matthew 12:5; Matthew 22:36; Matthew 22:40; Matthew 23:23; Luke 2:22-24; Luke 2:27; Luke 2:39; Luke 5:17; Luke 10:26; Luke 12:53; Luke 16:16; Luke 16:17; Luke 24:44; John 1:17; John 1:45; John 7:19; John 7:23; John 7:49; John 7:51; John 8:5; John 8:17; John 10:34; John 12:34; John 15:25; John 18:13; John 18:31; John 19:7; Acts 5:34; Acts 6:13; Acts 7:53; Acts 13:15; Acts 13:39; Acts 15:5; Acts 15:24; Acts 18:13; Acts 18:15; Acts 19:38; Acts 21:20; Acts 21:24; Acts 21:28; Acts 22:3; Acts 22:12; Acts 23:3; Acts 23:29; Acts 24:6; Acts 24:14; Acts 25:8; Acts 28:23; Romans 2:12-16; Romans 2:17-20; Romans 2:23; Romans 2:25; Romans 2:26; Romans 2:27; Romans 3:19; Romans 3:20-21; Romans 3:27; Romans 3:28; Romans 3:31; Romans 3:31; Romans 4:13; Romans 4:14-15; Romans 4:16; Romans 5:13; Romans 5:20; Romans 6:14; Romans 6:15; Romans 7:1; Romans 7:2; Romans 7:3; Romans 7:4; Romans 7:5; Romans 7:6; Romans 7:7; Romans 7:7; Romans 7:8; Romans 7:9; Romans 7:12; Romans 7:14; Romans 7:16; Romans 7:21; Romans 7:22-23; Romans 7:25; Romans 8:2; Romans 8:3-4; Romans 8:7; Romans 9:4; Romans 9:31; Romans 9:32; Romans 10:4; Romans 10:5; Romans 13:8; Romans 13:10; 1Corinthians 6:1; 1Corinthians 6:6; 1Corinthians 6:7; 1Corinthians 7:39; 1Corinthians 9:8; 1Corinthians 9:9; 1Corinthians 9:20-22; 1Corinthians 14:21; 1Corinthians 14:34; 1Corinthians 15:56; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 2:19; Galatians 2:21; Galatians 3:2; Galatians 3:5; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 3:11; Galatians 3:12; Galatians 3:13; Galatians 3:17; Galatians 3:18; Galatians 3:19; Galatians 3:21; Galatians 3:21; Galatians 3:23; Galatians 3:24; Galatians 4:4-5; Galatians 4:21; Galatians 5:3; Galatians 5:4; Galatians 5:14; Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:23; Galatians 6:2; Galatians 6:13; Ephesians 2:15; Philippians 3:5-6; Philippians 3:9; 1Timothy 1:7; 1Timothy 1:8-9; Titus 3:9; Hebrews 7:5; Hebrews 7:11; Hebrews 7:12; Hebrews 7:16; Hebrews 7:19; Hebrews 7:28; Hebrews 8:4; Hebrews 9:19; Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 10:1; Hebrews 10:8; Hebrews 10:28; James 1:25; James 2:8-9; James 2:10; James 2:11; James 2:12; James 4:11; 1John 3:4.The New Testament definition for this word is: 'an established or permanent set of rules, prescribed by the supreme power for regulating the actions of their citizens.  Laws command what shall be done, or not done, and disobedience incurs a penalty.  The laws, which are prescribed by God, are written in His word and will be used by God to judge every person'.

Webster's 1828 defines the word law  as: 'n. L. lex; from the root of lay. See lay. A law is that which is laid, set or fixed, like statute, constitution, from L. statuo.  1. A rule, particularly an established or permanent rule, prescribed by the supreme power of a state to its subjects, for regulating their actions, particularly their social actions. Laws are imperative or mandatory, commanding what shall be done; prohibitory, restraining from what is to be forborn; or permissive, declaring what may be done without incurring a penalty. The laws which enjoin the duties of piety and morality, are prescribed by God and found in the Scriptures.  Law is beneficence acting by rule.  2. Municipal law, is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear; a statute.  Municipal or civil laws are established by the decrees, edicts or ordinances of absolute princes, as emperors and kings, or by the formal acts of the legislatures of free states. Law therefore is sometimes equivalent to decree, edict, or ordinance.  3. Law of nature, is a rule of conduct arising out of the natural relations of human beings established by the Creator, and existing prior to any positive precept. Thus it is a law of nature, that one man should not injure another, and murder and fraud would be crimes, independent of any prohibition from a supreme power.  4. Laws of animal nature, the inherent principles by which the economy and functions of animal bodies are performed, such as respiration, the circulation of the blood, digestion, nutrition, various secretions, etc.  5. Laws of vegetation, the principles by which plats are produced, and their growth carried on till they arrive to perfection.  6. Physical laws, or laws of nature. The invariable tendency or determination of any species of matter to a particular form with definite properties, and the determination of a body to certain motions, changes, and relations, which uniformly take place in the same circumstances, is called a physical law. These tendencies or determinations, whether called laws or affections of matter, have been established by the Creator, and are, with a peculiar felicity of expression, denominated in Scripture, ordinances of heaven.  7. Laws of nations, the rules that regulate the mutual intercourse of nations or states. These rules depend on natural law, or the principles of justice which spring from the social state; or they are founded on customs, compacts, treaties, leagues and agreements between independent communities.  By the law of nations, we are to understand that code of public instruction, which defines the rights and prescribes the duties of nations, in their intercourse with each other.  8. Moral law, a law which prescribes to men their religious and social duties, in other words, their duties to God and to each other. The moral law is summarily contained in the decalogue or ten commandments, written by the finger of God on two tables of stone, and delivered to Moses on mount Sinai.  Ex. 20.  9. Ecclesiastical law, a rule of action prescribed for the government of a church; otherwise called canon law.  10. Written law, a law or rule of action prescribed or enacted by a sovereign, and promulgated and recorded in writing; a written statute, ordinance, edict or decree.  11. Unwritten or common law, a rule of action which derives its authority from long usage, or established custom, which has been immemorially received and recognized by judicial tribunals. As this law can be traced to no positive statutes, its rules or principles are to be found only in the records of courts, and in the reports of judicial decisions.  12. By-law, a law of a city, town or private corporation. See By.  13. Mosaic law, the institutions of Moses, or the code of laws prescribed to the Jews, as distinguished from the gospel.  14. Ceremonial law, the Mosaic institutions which prescribe the external rites and ceremonies to be observed by the Jews, as distinct from the moral precepts, which are of perpetual obligation.  15. A rule of direction; a directory; as reason and natural conscience.  These, having not the law, as a law to themselves. Rom. 2.  16. That which governs or has a tendency to rule; that which has the power of controlling.  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. Romans 7.  17. The word of God; the doctrines and precepts of God, or his revealed will.  But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. 1.  18. The Old Testament.  Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods? John 10.  19. The institutions of Moses, as distinct from the other parts of the Old Testament; as the law and the prophets.  20. A rule or axiom of science or art; settled principle; as the laws of versification or poetry.  21. Law martial, or martial law, the rules ordained for the government of an army or military force.  22. Marine laws, rules for the regulation of navigation, and the commercial intercourse of nations.  23. Commercial law, law-merchant, the system of rules by which trade and commercial intercourse are regulated between merchants.  24. Judicial process; prosecution of right in courts of law.  Tom Touchy is a fellow famous for taking the law of every body.  Hence the phrase, to go to law, to prosecute; to seek redress in a legal tribunal.  25. Jurisprudence; as in the title, Doctor of Laws.  26. In general, law is a rule of action prescribed for the government of rational beings or moral agents, to which rule they are bound to yield obedience, in default of which they are exposed to punishment; or law is a settled mode or course of action or operation in irrational beings and in inanimate bodies.  Civil law, criminal law. See Civil and Criminal.  Laws of honor. See Honor.  Law language, the language used in legal writings and forms, particularly the Norman dialect or Old French, which was used in judicial proceedings from the days of William the conqueror to the 36th year of Edward III.  Wager of law, a species of trial formerly used in England, in which the defendant gave security that he would, on a certain day, make his law, that is, he would make oath that he owed nothing to the plaintiff, and would produce eleven of his neighbors as compurgators, who should swear that they believed in their consciences that he had sworn the truth'.

Nave's Topical Bible provides links for the word law  as: 'General scriptures concerning:  Ps 19:7-9; 119:1-8; Pr 28:4-5; Mt 22:21; Lu 16:17; 20:22-25; Ro 2:14-15; 7:7,12,14; 13:10; 1Ti 1:5,8-10; Jas 1:25; 1Jo 3:4; 5:3.  OF MOSES (Contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy):  Given at Sinai :  Ex 19; De 1:1; 4:10-13; 33:2; Hab 3:3.  Received by the disposition of angels:  De 33:2; Ps 68:17; Ac 7:53; Ga 3:19; Heb 2:2.  Was given because of transgressions until the Messiah arrived:  Ga 3:19.  Engraved on stone:  Ex 20:3-17; 24:12; 31:18; 32:16; 34:29; 40:20; De 4:13; 5:4-22; 9:10.  Preserved in the ark of the covenant:  Ex 25:16; De 31:9,26.  Found by Hilkiah in the house of the Lord:  2Ki 22:8.  Engraved upon monuments:  De 27:2-8; Jos 8:30-35.  To be written:  On door posts:  De 6:9; 11:20.  On frontlets for the forehead, and parchment for the hand:  Ex 13:9,16; De 6:4-9; 11:18-21.  Expounded by:  The priests and Levites:  Le 10:11; De 33:10; 2Ch 35:3.  Princes, priests, and Levites publicly taught:  Ezr 7:10; Ne 8.  From city to city:  2Ch 17:7-10.  In synagogues:  Lu 4:16,32; Ac 13:14-52; 15:21; 9:20; 14:1; 17:1-3; 18:4,26.  Expounded to the assembled nation at the Feast of Tabernacles in the sabbatic year:  De 31:10-13.  Renewed by Moses:  De 4:44-46.  Curses of, responsively read by Levites and people at Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim:  De 27:12-26; Jos 8:33-35.  Formed a constitution on which the civil government of the Israelites was founded, and according to which rulers were required to rule:  De 17:18-20; 2Ki 11:12; 2Ch 23:11.  Divine authority for:  Ex 19:16-24; 20:1-17; 24:12-18; 31:18; 32:15-16; 34:1-4,27-28; Le 26:46; De 4:10-13,36; 5:1-22; 9:10; 10:1-5; 33:2-4; 1Ki 8:9; Ezr 7:6; Ne 1:7; 8:1; 9:14; Ps 78:5; 103:7; Isa 33:22; Mal 4:4; Ac 7:38,53; Ga 3:19; Heb 9:18-21.  Prophecies in, of the Messiah:  Lu 24:44; Joh 1:45; 5:46; 12:34; Ac 26:22-23; 28:23; Ro 3:21-22.  Epitomized by Jesus:  Mt 22:40; Mr 12:29-33; Lu 10:27.  Book of, found by Hilkiah in the temple:  2Ki 22:8; 2Ch 34:14 TEMPORARY:  Jer 3:16; Da 9:27; Mt 5:17-45; Lu 16:16-17; Joh 1:17; 4:20-24; 8:35; Ac 6:14; 10:28; 13:39; 15:1-29; 21:20-25; Ro 3:1-2; 7:1-6; 8:3; 10:4; 2Co 3:7-14; Ga 2:3-9; 4:30-31; Eph 2:15; Col 2:14-23; Heb 8:4-13; 9:8-24; 10:1-18; 11:40; 12:18-19,27'.

Thompson Chain Topics provides links for the word law  as: 'Bondage of:  Book of the:  De 31:26; Jos 1:8; 2Ki 22:8; 23:2; 2Ch 17:9; Ne 8:8; Ga 3:10.  Ceremonial Abolished in Christ:  Eph 2:15; Col 2:14; Heb 7:18; 8:13; 10:1; 12:27.  Despised:  2Ch 36:16; Ps 78:10; Isa 5:24; 30:9; Jer 6:19; 9:13; Ho 4:6; Am 2:4; Mr 7:9.  Impartiality of:  Ex 12:49; Le 24:22; Nu 9:14; 15:16.  In the Heart:  Ps 37:31; 40:8; Jer 31:33; 32:40; Ro 2:15; 7:22; 2Co 3:3; Heb 8:10; 10:16.  Insufficient:  Ro 3:19; 8:3; Ga 2:19; Eph 2:15; Heb 7:19.  Keeping of Enjoined:  De 17:19; Jos 23:6; 1Ch 22:12; Pr 28:7.  Mosaic:  (the ten commandments):  Ex 20:1; 32:16; 34:28; De 4:13; 5:7; 10:4; Jos 8:32.  Perfection of the Divine:  Ps 19:7; 119:142; Ro 7:12,14; 1Ti 1:8.  Purpose of:  Ro 3:20; 5:20; 7:7; Ga 3:19,24; 1Ti 1:9.  The Public Reading of:  De 31:11; Jos 8:35; 2Ki 23:2; Ne 8:3,18; 13:1; Jer 36:6'.

Torrey's Topical Textbook provides links for the phrase Atonement, under the Law  as: 'Made by sacrifice:  Le 1:4-5:  By priests alone:  1Ch 6:49; 2Ch 29:24:  NECESSARY FOR:  Propitiating God:  Ex 32:30; Le 23:27-28; 2Sa 21:3:  Ransoming:  Ex 30:15-16:  Purifying:  Ex 29:36:  OFFERED FOR:  the congregation:  Nu 15:25; 2Ch 29:24:  the priests:  Ex 29:31-33; Le 8:34:  Persons sinning ignorantly:  Le 4:20-35:  Persons sinning willfully:  Le 6:7:  Persons swearing rashly:  Le 5:4,6:  Persons withholding evidence:  Le 5:1,6:  Persons unclean:  Le 5:2-3,6:  Women after childbirth:  Le 12:8:  the altar:  Ex 29:36-37:  the holy place:  Le 16:16-17:  the healed leper:  Le 14:18:  the leprous house healed:  Le 14:53:  Extraordinary cases of:  Ex 32:30-34; Nu 16:47; 25:10-13:  Typical of Christ's atonement:  Ro 5:6-11'.

Most laws,  in the true word of God  are given by God and enforced through His role as LORD.  Please see the Verses in The New Testament  and the Summary about the name / role of LORD.  The law of Christ  is: the requirement for saved people to mature spiritually after they are saved and tells them how to do so.  All other laws are enforced by God in His role as Lord  and, in that role, He has no respect of persons.

Please see the note for Galatians C3S22 about the phrase Mosaic Law added.  Please also see the note for Hebrews 10:28-29 about the phrase New Testament replaces only The religious part of The Mosaic Law.  Please also see the note for Ephesians 4:7-LJC about the phrase righteousness of The Law.

The phrase the law and the prophets  is used to indicate the Old Testament.  Luke 16:16 says: The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.  This, literally, tells us when the Old Testament ended and the New Testament started.  See below for more on this doctrine.

Please see the notes for Romans 3:27-31 which explain that boasting  is not excluded  by the law of works  ('obeying religious rules which religious people claim is required in order to be saved or sanctified by law').  However, boasting  is excluded  by the law of faith.  In addition, trusting obeying a religious law,  for your salvation or sanctification, excludes  the salvation and promises which God only gives through having the faith of Jesus Christ.

Romans 7:4 says: 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.  The phrase dead to the law  means: 'we no longer respond to the law (nor to religious rules)'.  Our sentence goes on and says: by the body of Christ,  which means 'the truly saves are trusting in the death of Christ to pat for their personal salvation and sanctification' and they are not relying on keeping religious rules for their salvation nor for their sanctification.  Our sentence continues with that ye should be married to another,  which means 'we have an ongoing personal relationship with Jesus Christ'.  that means that we are not relying on strict rules of law.  Our sentence finishes with: that we should bring forth fruit unto God.  Fruit  is 'new life'.  We can produce new spiritual life only be letting Jesus Christ  work though our own personal life to cause others to be born again.  People who are relying on law (religious rules) to give them salvation and sanctification are not worried about doing the 'Great Commission' but are worried about getting other people to obey their religious rules.

Romans 10:4 says: For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.  This is the conclusion of the doctrinal teaching of the last several chapters where Paul dealt with claims that 'keeping the law (obeying religious ruled) provided salvation and/or sanctification'.  If saved people are truly in Christ  then they have stopped keeping religious rules for righteousness  (the end of the law for righteousness.  I don't know how God could make it more plain.  Yes, we have to obey rules but doing so does not give us righteousness.  This is especially true for demands that we keep rules which are based upon the religious part of the Mosaic Law because, as explained in Hebrews, the religious part of the Mosaic Law is based upon the New Testament.  Clearly, people who insist that we must obey their religious rules, which are based upon the religious part of the Mosaic Law, have rejected the entire New Testament and all the promises of God which are in it.

1Corinthians 6:1 says: Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?.  In that sentence, the word law  is used for the human legal system.  It should be obvious that there is more than one legal system.  Too many religious people assume that their religious rules are part of God's legal system and, therefore, have as much authority as God's commandments.

1Corinthians 6:7 says: Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another.  Paul goes on to explain why this is true.  He does not say that it is wrong to take a lost person to court, but only another saved person.

Galatians 3:10 tells us that, responding to claims that the law ('keeping religious rules') provides salvation and/or sanctification, brings God's curse on us and keeps us from receiving the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:11 tells us that, responding to claims that the law ('keeping religious rules') provides salvation and/or sanctification, prevents us from living by faith.  The rest of the chapter goes on and tells us that Jesus Christ  had to live and die to pay for the sins of the whole world  (1John 2:2).  Now, God does not applies His payment to the legal record of all people but only to those people who truly put their own faith  is the payment made by Jesus Christ.  Thus, the claims that keeping the law  ('keeping religious rules') provides salvation and sanctification is proven to be a lie because if that method truly provided salvation and sanctification, then Jesus Christ  never would have needed to live and die to pay for our sins.

Galatians 4:2 says: Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.  Notice that our sentence says that were under the law.  the word were  is: 'a past-tense verb of being'.  Thus, in the past, true children of God  were under the law  but no longer are under the law.  Therefore, people who claim that we need to keep the law  ('obey their religious rules') are trying to force God's children back into a condition that the Son of God  paid a great price to remove them from.

Also, that sentence ends with: To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.  The Son of God  paid the price (to redeem them)  so that the truly saved are no longer under the law  ('had to obey religious rules') but could receive the adoption of sons  and receive God's character as their own personal character.

Galatians 4:21 says: Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?  and the remainder of the chapter answers that question.  The next several sentences, in that chapter, explain the difference between being under the law  to being truly adopted as children of God.  As explained in the next few sentences, being under the law  gendereth to bondage  while being a true child of promise  makes you free.  Our chapter ends with: So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Ephesians 2:15 tells us: aving abolished in his flesh...the law of commandments contained in ordinances.  Jesus Christ  died to free the saved from the law of commandments contained in ordinances.  People who claim that we must keep the law  'obey their religious rules') want to remove the results of the death of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:3 says: For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.  Paul continues with his personal testimony of how he, personally, had the best possible testimony of people who keep the law  while he was lost and persecuting the church.  He continues with: Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.  He do count them but dung  everything that keeping religious rules actually gives to someone.

Philippians 3:8-9 says: Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:.  Paul says that mine own righteousness, which is of the law  is dung  while the righteousness which is of God by faith  is: that which is through the faith of Christ.

1Timothy 1:7 describes people who preach Keeping the law  as: some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.  He commands Timothy, and us, do not give heed  because the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.

Titus 3:9 says: But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.  Arguing with people who want to command others to keep the law  ('obey their religious rules') is vain  and we are commanded to avoid suck foolishness.

What I will explain next is explained in more detail in the documents accessed from the Hermey tab.

The Mosaic Law has three parts: God's moral Law, the Religious Law, and the Civil Law.  Hebrews 13:17 says: Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.  1Peter 2:13-14 says: Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 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.  Without going into the details (They are provided elsewhere on this site), we are told to submit to the civil law of the land we are in.  Even Israel, of today, does not follow the Civil Law found in the Mosaic Law.  In addition, everything found in the Moral Law, of the Mosaic Law, is dealing with haw we are to relate to God on a personal basis.  All of that was established before Moses wrote the Mosaic Law and has never been changed.  Therefore, it is still in effect as written.  Then the Religious Law, the only remaining part, was replaced by the New Testament.  However, people have been taught many doctrinal errors about this truth with some claiming that we still keep the Religious Law and some claiming that we keep no law and many claiming many other false doctrines about this subject.

This truth is explained in more detail elsewhere on this site, especially in the Book Study on Hebrews.  That book explains the doctrine of the new covenant  and it, along with other Bible books, explain the doctrine of the new testament.  Both. a covenant  and a new testament  are legal documents.  Both are part of God's law,  which is preserved unchanging by God.  However, lots of religious people claim that they can change these documents and imply, without directly stating, that they can force God to use their changes.  Hopefully, the reader understands how stupid such claims are.  Since these legal documents are part of God's law,  which has more authority than the law of gravity, let such lying ministers of Satan prove that they can set aside the law of gravity before you believe their doctrines.

Now, as already mentioned, the Book of Hebrews specifies this doctrine and no men, nor religion, has the authority to alter what God had written in that Bible book.  As explained, by God in that book, There is a legal document which is the same in all cultures, all legal systems and for all time.  It is called a 'Last Will and Testament'.  The Will part says: 'Here's who gets my stuff after I'm dead'.  The Testament part says: 'Here's the last words I have for people'.  Most men have an attitude of: 'I've listened to that person my whole life and don't care about their words.  Tell me what stuff i get'.  God's attitude is: 'I'm going to burn up all that stuff.  My Testament is what is important'.  And, while the attitudes are completely different, the legal document is the same.  So, most people will best understand, the doctrine that God wrote, if they think of the word Will instead of Testament.

As Hebrews explains, you can only have one Will / Testament in effect at a given time.  A new Will / Testament replaces the old one.  Therefore, the religion which claims that 'God has two Will / Testament in effect at the same time' is lying.  They are trying to claim that their doctrine of devils  is just as effective and has as much authority as the word of God.  In addition, only you can change your own Will / Testament.  Therefore, the religions which claim that the Mosaic Religious Law is still partially in effect are trying to claim that they can change God's Will / Testament.  Let them ride on the plane and prove that they have stopped God's law of gravity.  That is the only way that they can prove that their religious doctrine from devils  can change God's Will / Testament.  And, the religions which claim that God's law is no longer in affect are trying to claim that they can destroy God's Will / Testament.  Let them ride on the plane and prove that they have stopped God's law of gravity.

Now. what has been implied, and stated, is that there are different types of laws and, within the Bible, only the Moral Law and the New Testament are still in effect.  However, since the Prophets and Genesis deal with God's Moral Law, they are still in effect.  The Civil Law is replaced by the laws of the government that rules the land you reside in.  God's Mosaic Religious Law is replaced by the New Testament and new covenant, according to the Book of Hebrews and according to other books such as the words of Jesus  as reported in the Gospels.  With these general concepts explained, we are now ready to look at specific doctrines and laws which are controlled by these truths.

There is much doctrinal error taught about Biblical laws.  The New Testament definition, for the word law,  is: 'The set of written or commonly understood rules for unacceptable behavior and which can be used by a legal system for punishing offenders'.  In most, but not all of the New Testament, this word is used for the Mosaic Religious Law.  The note for Romans 4:14-14 explains 'Why God does not use the (Mosaic Religious) law  to save people'.

Contained within this Study are links to notes in each book of the New Testament where forms of the word law  are used.  Those links are so that the reader can verify the doctrine presented.  Since we will all be judged, by God, according to His written law,  it is imperative that we understand the truth about the true doctrines, and not the religious perversions of God's law,  which many devil motivated people, and religions, teach.  Further, since many devil-motivated and deceived people declare themselves to be the final authority, on these doctrines, while teaching error, it is critical for us, and our loved ones, for us to be able to separate error and lies from the truth.

One of the most common perversions, which people and religions teach, is the definition of sin.  The true Biblical definition of sin  is: 'a violation of God's law'.  The saying of: 'If you've done the crime then you've got to do the time'  is definitely true under God's Law.  And, God's time  is: 'eternity in the lake of fire  (Revelation 19:20)'.  The only way to avoid this is to accept God's offer of salvation make only through accepting the Lord Jesus Christ  your personal Lord.  But, devil motivated and deceived people spread lies about what it truly sin.  They claim that sin  is: 'a violation of their own rules' and that they have the power and authority to force God to accept their perversions to God's law.  Please see the notes, below, about the true Biblical definition of sin  Romans C7S26; especially Sin in 1John.  We also find the phrase, sin unto death,  in 1John 5:16; Romans 6:16.  We see this doctrine dealt with in: Acts 5; Romans 5; 1Corinthians 8:11-LJC; Galatians C3-S26 and James 1:15.

Jesus  told the religious leaders It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true  in John 8:17.  Their law  was, of course, written by God and the character, of the God of the word of God,  is that He keeps all laws  which He commands us to keep.  Therefore, anything that is literally written twice, in the word of God,  is part of the law  of God.  Anything written only once, or written indirectly, can be used for applications, but not for a law of God.

Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31 and Luke 21:33 all say: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.  That makes the Laws of God's word more powerful than the laws of creation, such as gravity or the laws of Math.  Unfortunately, many people believe that their personal desires and personal beliefs can override this basic separation between a true law of God and the applications of God's laws.  Let such a person take a plane to at least 2,000 feet in the air, strip down to their birthday suit and jump out to prove that their personal desire to float down is greater than God's law of gravity.  Anyone who claims that their personal belief is greater than God's true laws found in the word of God,  but is not willing to provide the specified proof of their claim, thereby proves that they are a lying minister of devils.

That written, we need to consider that God does not change (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8).  This is one of the never-changing laws of the word of God.  When God said a word in His word,  it had a meaning attached to it.  God would have to change to give the same word a different meaning or to give a different word the same meaning.  Too many people believe doctrines of devils  (1Timothy 4:1) when they claim that a given word, in the word of God,  has more than one meaning or that two different words, in the word of God,  have the same meaning.  The same principals apply to doctrines.  God would have to change in order for the word of God  to have opposing doctrines.  At the time of this writing, there are over 7.5 billion Bible links of this web site.  They show where God writes the same thing in many different places within His word.

With that truth understood, we come to claimed conflicts within the word of God.  God is very specific and detailed in His word.  A lot of confusion comes from people not being as specific and detailed as God is when they specify a doctrine which they claim comes from the word of God.  I will explain in the next few paragraphs.

Now, please consider 2Timothy 2:15 which says: Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  Many people, wrongly, believe that they obey this command when that study what religion says about the word of truth  instead of studdying the word of truth  itself.  That is not rightly dividing the word of truth.  If a child of God needs  something then God will be sure to provide it.  If we are not rightly dividing the word of truth  then God will make us ashamed.  If he does not do so in this life, then He will do so at the judgment seat of Christ  (Romans 14:10; 2Corinthians 5:10).  If God reveals our error there then all of Heaven will know that we taught doctrinal error and will know it for all of eternity (Matthew 10:26; and Luke 12:2).  Therefore, it is foolish for a child of God to ignore this warning.

Dividing  is a Mathematical function whereby we separate according to precise rules which never change and we receive precise results.  Mathematical functions are part of the never-changing laws which God established when He created this universe.  Too many people make the mistake that they can be imprecise when interpreting the word of God.  This attitude is one of the reasons for many doctrinal errors being taught.  Saved people who are not precise or who ignore God's never-changing laws for proper interpretation, of the word of God,  are not rightly dividing the word of truth  and God will make them ashamed  because they need  this result for their error.

One major method of this type of error was introduced by Satan when he tempted Jesus.  He quoted scripture but left out an important phrase, thereby perverting what God wrote (Matthew 4:6 and Luke 4:11).  Many people use this same method, from Satan, to justify their doctrinal error.

Next, preachers mainly deal with applications of the word of God.  For words and doctrines, in the word of God,  there is a true saying of: 'There is one saying (doctrine / definition) but many applications'.  Most people who claim to be saved agree with this saying until the single true definition proves a favorite application to be in error.  Many preachers, and saved people, believe that dictionaries give definitions.  However, they actually give applications and people believe that they can pick their favorite application and declare it to be the single definition of a Bible word.  (If a dictionary does provide the single definition, it is typically lost within the many applications which the dictionary also provides.)  That is one reason why we have so many opposing doctrines which are claimed to be the truth (definition or doctrine) from the word of God.  For example, Webster's 1828 dictionary has about 30 different applications within the definition provided of the word hand.  There are not that many different single definitions of this single Bible word.  those are not many single definitions but many applications.  And, Webster's 1828 is the most reliable dictionary for true definitions of Bible words.

The only way to find the true definition of a Bible word is to study every place where it is used in the word of God  and pay close attention to the context.  What never changes, when those references are compared, is the true single definition and what changes, but is in the true word of God,  are the true multiple applications.  All of this is explained in much more detail within the documents accessed from the Hermey tab.  The problem, that most people have, is that this is far more work than they are willing to do in order to find true definitions of words within the word of God.

The same thing happens with doctrines.  There are many conflicting doctrines which all claim to be the single true doctrine of the word of God.  And, people find it to be too much work to truly, and personally, study everything that the word of God  says about a given doctrine.  So, they accept what some self proclaimed expert claims.  Such people, often, violate God's laws, on how to interpret the word of God,  through ignorance or laziness.  This is why there are so many conflicting doctrines about what laws apply to God's people in the New Testament.  Many people accept doctrines claimed by self proclaimed Bible experts, even when their doctrines violate God's never-changing laws for proper interpretation of the word of God.

You might wonder 'What does this have to do with God's law?'.  Simply put, true children of God who teach perverted doctrines and perverted definitions of Bible words are sinning and will be judged by God for that sin.  One of the worst perversions of God's law is: 'No tears in Heaven'.  God does not wipe away all tears from their eyes  (Revelation 21:4) until after the great white throne  judgment, which is at least 1007 years after the  saved people get into Heaven.  Therefore, saved people will have at least 1007 years of tears, averaging more than twice a week, (Isaiah 66:23-24) as they watch people burn in Hell who believed their doctrinal errors.

Now, there is one more general principal to consider before we get into the specifics of the doctrine presented in this paper.

There are only a handful of people who have ever written a book on how to interpret the word of God.  I am one of them.  In addition, I have personally read every book published in the last 150 years on this subject.  Every other book tells a religious method, which leads to errors and helps justify the lie that 'there are errors and conflicts in the word of God'.  My book and lessons, on the Hermey tab, prove that there are no errors and are no conflicts if you use God's method to interpret God's word.  God showed me His method, which is written up in the documents mentioned, and no one has ever identified any place where what is on this site goes against what is written in the word of God.  Yes, what is here goes against many religious doctrines, but not against what is written in the word of God.  In addition, no one has ever identified any place where what is written in one place on this web site goes against what is written on another place within this web site.  That is only possible if God is using me to provide research tools for His people.  Only God can produce something with zero errors.  I could not produce this site using my natural abilities.

For further information, please see Romans C3S25 about law and faith, Romans 13:8 about law and love, Psalms 119 about law of The Lord and Romans 3:27 about law of works.

In addition, the New Testament speaks about the law of Christ.  The law of Christ  is: 'what will be used to judge our personal obedience to personal commands which God gives to us while we are living'.

Please also see the following notes about the word law.  They give us general principals about God's laws:

Now, going to the specifics of the doctrine covered by this document, we must consider 'God's Laws for the New Testament'.  There is a lot of doctrinal error taught about this subject.  Some is from people deliberately teaching doctrines of devils  (1Timothy 4:1) and some is due to people believing a lie, without verifying what they believe against what is actually written in the word of God.  Another reason is that people use wrong procedures when they try to interpret what the word of God  truly says and they receive wrong understanding.  This is often due to people using natural reasoning  (1Corinthians 2:14) to try and understand spiritual truths.  And, there are probably other reasons for errors, but I believe what is mentioned are probably the main reasons for these types of errors.

Below are some of the laws  that have been identified as applying to saved people.  Please use the links provided to see the details explained for each of these laws:

  1. the law of faith:  Romans 3:27.
  2. the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus:  Romans 8:2.
  3. the law to Christ is in our current verse.
  4. the law of Christ:  Galatians 6:2.
  5. law of her husband:  Romans 7:2.
  6. law of righteousness:  Romans 9:31.
    7. law of my mind
  7. :  Romans 7:23.
  8. the Law of Moses:  (The church is required to keep only the 'moral' part of the Law of Moses):  Luke 2:22; Luke 24:44; John 7:23; Acts 13:39; Acts 15:5; Acts 28:23 and 1Corinthians 9:9.
  9. the Law of the Lord:  Psalms 119.
  10. the Law of God:  Romans 7:22.
  11. the Law of life:  Romans 7:25.  1John 5:11-12.
  12. the Law of liberty:  James 1:25 and 2:12.
  13. the law of the fathers:  Acts 22:3.
  14. the law of the Jews:  Acts 25:8.
  15. law of evil:  Romans 7:21.
  16. law of sin:  Romans 7:23.
  17. the law sin and death:  Romans 8:2.
  18. 'Mosaic Law added':  Galatians C3-S22.
  19. 'law and faith':  Romans C3S25.
  20. 'righteousness of the Law:':  Ephesians 4:7-LJC.
  21. 'law of works':  Romans C3S27.

The note for 1Corinthians 9:20-21 has a lot of information on applying various laws while maintaining our personal relationship with God.  Please also see the notes for Galatians C2-S10 and Psalms 119 about the phrase the Law of the Lord.  Please also see the note for Galatians 3:10 about the phrase book of law.  Please also see the note for Romans C3S27 about the phrase law of works.  Please also see the note for Romans C3S25 about the phrase Law and faith.  Please also see the note for Romans 13:8 about the phrase Law and love.  Please also see the note for John 1:45 about the phrase Law and the prophets.  The New Testament definition, for this word, is: 'A way of specifying the Old Testament'.  Please also see the note for Romans C3S31 about the phrase laws that apply to us today.  Please also see the note for Luke 14:3 about the word lawyer.  Please also see the note for Galatians C3S22 about the phrase Mosaic Law added.  Please also see the note for Hebrews 10:28-29 about the phrase New Testament replaces only the religious part of the Mosaic Law.  Please also see the note for Hebrews 19:29-LJC about the phrase religious part of Mosaic Law.  Please also see the note for Ephesians 4:7-LJC about the phrase righteousness of the Law.  Please also see the note for Revelation 13:8-LJC about the phrase book of the life.  Our life  is very definitely affected by God's law.

Moving on, Romans 3:27 tells us that we are under The law of faith.  Likewise, Romans 8:2 tells us that we are under The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.  Galatians 6:2 tells us about The law of Christ.  Romans 7:2 tells us about the law of her husband.  Romans 9:31 tells us about the law of righteousness.  Romans 7:23 tells us about the law of my mind.  Luke 2:22; Luke 24:44; John 7:23; Acts 13:39; Acts 15:5; Acts 28:23 and 1Corinthians 9:9 all mention The Law of Moses,  and the church is required to keep only the 'moral' part of The Law of Moses.  Luke calls the 'moral' part The Law of the Lord  (Luke 2:23-24; Luke 2:39).  This is very similar to The Law of God,  which we find in Romans 7:22.  Romans 7:25.  1John 5:11-12 tells us The Law of life.  James 1:25 and 2:12 tell us The Law of liberty.  In Acts 22:3 we see The law of the fathers  and in Acts 25:8 we see The law of the Jews.  Both of these are man made religious laws,  which we do not keep.  Romans 7:21 tells us about the law of evil.  Romans 7:23 tells us about the law of sin.  8:2 tells us about The law sin and death.  These and many more are established  (proven to be more reliable than the laws of nature) by the life of the saved person.

The phrase book of the law  is found in Deuteronomy 29:21; Deuteronomy 30:10; Deuteronomy 31:26; Joshua 1:8; Joshua 8:31; Joshua 8:34; Joshua 23:6; Joshua 24:26; 2Kings 14:6; 2Kings 22:8; 2Kings 22:11; 2Chronicles 17:9; 2Chronicles 34:14-15; Nehemiah 8:1; Nehemiah 8:3; Nehemiah 8:18; Nehemiah 9:3 and our current sentence.  While it was originally used for the first five (5) books written by Moses, some people have expanded the meaning to include all of the Old Testament.

The word law:  is used in Psalms 119 to mean 'The general category that encompasses all of the other legal words that are used within this Psalm'.  Please see the Word Definitions section for many of the other words that are involved in God's law.  People need to completely study these words also if they want to claim to be an expert on law  within God's word.

While there are a lot more references to The law of the LORD  than the verses which use that exact phrase, looking at those verses gives us a good general understanding of what we are to walk in.  This exact phrase occurs in:

What we see consistently is that God's people who 'trust and obey' The law of the Lord  bring blessings upon themselves and their followers.  God's people who do not 'trust and obey' the law of the Lord  bring God's judgment upon themselves and their followers.  Further, we saw that to 'trust and obey' The law of the Lord  required having wisdom and understanding  from God.  This is because The law of the Lord  encompasses other terms found in this Psalm such as precepts,  statutes,  commandments,  judgments,  and God's testimonies.  Thus, The law of the Lord  is more than just a bunch of rules for us to follow.  Please also see The note for Romans 8:1 and The note for Ephesians 4:1 for links to verses within Romans which use forms of the word walk.  Please also see The note for Romans C9-S28 for how the saved are to live / walk by faith.

Now, that should be sufficient to get a general understanding that there are several laws  which apply to God's people today.  In addition, we can look at the notes written for every New Testament sentence which uses the word law.  Those notes explain how this word is used in that context.  We find forms of the word law  occurring 582 times in 522 verses of the Bible, 263 times in 209 verses of the New Testament.  That many references should prove that law  is very important within the New Testament and that any one who claims otherwise is a liar.

We find the word laws  in: Genesis 26:5; Exodus 16:28; Exodus 18:16; Exodus 18:20; Leviticus 26:46; Ezra 7:25; Nehemiah 9:13; Nehemiah 9:14; Esther 1:19; Esther 3:8; Psalms 105:45; Isaiah 24:5; Ezekiel 43:11; Ezekiel 44:5; Ezekiel 44:24; Daniel 7:25; Daniel 9:10; Hebrews 8:10; Hebrews 10:16.  The New Testament definition for this word is: 'the multiple form of the word law'.

We find the word lawful  is found in: Ezra 7:24; Isaiah 49:24; Ezekiel 18:5; Ezekiel 18:19; Ezekiel 18:21; Ezekiel 18:27; Ezekiel 33:14; Ezekiel 33:16; Ezekiel 33:19; Matthew 12:2; Matthew 12:4; Matthew 12:10; Matthew 12:12; Matthew 14:4; Matthew 19:3; Matthew 20:15; Matthew 22:17; Matthew 27:6; Mark 2:24; Mark 2:26; Mark 3:4; Mark 6:18; Mark 10:2; Mark 12:14; Luke 6:2; Luke 6:4; Luke 6:9; Luke 14:3; Luke 20:22; John 5:10; John 18:31; Acts 16:21; Acts 19:39; Acts 22:25; 1Corinthians 6:12; 1Corinthians 10:23; 2Corinthians 12:4.  The New Testament definition for this word is: 'something which is done according to the law'.

Webster's 1828 defines this word as: 'a.  1. Agreeable to law; conformable to law; allowed by law; legal; legitimate. That is deemed lawful which no law forbids, but many things are lawful which are not expedient.  2. Constituted by law; rightful; as the lawful owner of lands'.

We find the word lawgiver  in: Genesis 49:10; Numbers 21:18; Deuteronomy 33:21; Psalms 60:7; Psalms 108:8; Isaiah 33:22 and James 4:12  The New Testament definition for this word is: 'the person who enacts a law.  In the Bible, God is the only lawgiver of Biblical laws'.

The Morrish Bible Dictionary defines this word as: 'This in the first place refers to God; but in human affairs He is pleased to delegate His authority to the rulers, and Judah is twice mentioned as God's lawgiver. Ge 49:10; Nu 21:18; De 33:21; Ps 60:7; 108:8; Isa 33:22; Jas 4:12'.  While the commentators do not recognize this truth, James, symbolically, calls our Lord Jesus Christ  the lawgiver.

Thompson Chain Topics provides links for the word Lawgiver  as: 'God as:  Isa 33:22; 51:4; Jas 4:12.  Moses as:  Ex 34:32; De 4:44; 33:4; Joh 1:17; 7:19; Ac 7:38.  This note fails to list our Lord Jesus Christ  even though he is, symbolically, presented as a lawgiver'.

We find the word lawyer  only in the New Testament and in: Matthew 22:35; Luke 10:25 and Titus 3:13..  The New Testament definition, for this word, is: 'a practitioner of law.  One whose profession is to institute suits in courts of law, and to prosecute or defend the cause of clients'.

The Morrish Bible Dictionary defines this word as: 'A teacher of the law, one who expounded the law. Nicodemus was probably one, for the Lord called him a 'teacher of Israel.' the Lord said of the lawyers that they put heavy burdens on others, but did not touch them themselves; and in their expositions they took away the key of knowledge. they did not enter in themselves, and hindered those who were entering a solemn description that may, alas, apply to some in this day, such as are elsewhere described as 'blind leaders of the blind.' Mt 22:35; Lu 7:30; 10:25; 11:45-52; 14:3; Tit 3:13'.  Links to this word are included in the links found in the notes below.

We find the word lawyers  only in the New Testament and in: Luke 7:30; Luke 11:45; Luke46; Luke52 and Luke 14:3.  The New Testament definition, for this word, is: 'the multiple form of the word lawyer'.

We find the word unlawful  in: Acts 10:18 and 2Peter 2:8  The New Testament definition for this word is: 'action done outside of the requirements of law'.

Webster's 1828 defines this word as: 'a. Not lawful; contrary to law; illegal; not permitted by law.  Unlawful assembly, in law, the meeting of three or more persons to commit an unlawful act'.

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