The following are the Pauline verses in the New Testament which refer to “law” or “the law”; 9 of 116, or about 8%, are evidently references to Torah. Adjective phrases are highlighted where relevant.
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| Verse | Pauline uses of “the law” or “law” Not Referring to Torah |
| Ro 3:27 | Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. |
| Ro 7:21 | I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. |
| Ro 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. |
| Ro 8:02 | For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. |
| 1Co 6:01 | Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? |
| 1Co 6:06 | But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. |
| 1Co 6:7 | Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? |
| Ep 2:15 | Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; |
| Ref | Pauline uses of “the law” evidently referring to Torah |
| Ro 2:12 | 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; |
| Ro 2:13 | For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. |
| Ro 2:14 | 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: |
| Ro 2:15 | 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;) |
| Ro 2:17 | Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, |
| Ro 2:18 | And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; |
| Ro 2:20 | An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. |
| Ro 2:23 | Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? |
| Ro 2:25 | For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. |
| Ro 2:26 | Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? |
| Ro 2:27 | 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? |
| Ro 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. |
| Ro 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. |
| Ro 3:21 | But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; |
| Ro 3:28 | Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. |
| Ro 3:31 | Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. |
| Ro 4:13 | For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. |
| Ro 4:14 | For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: |
| Ro 4:15 | Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. |
| Ro 4:16 | Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; 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, |
| Ro 5:13 | (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. |
| Ro 5:20 | Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: |
| Ro 6:14 | For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. |
| Ro 6:15 | What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. |
| Ro 7:01 | 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? |
| Ro 7:02 | 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. |
| Ro 7:03 | So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. |
| Ro 7:04 | 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. |
| Ro 7:05 | For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. |
| Ro 7:06 | But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. |
| Ro 7:07 | 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. |
| Ro 7:08 | But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. |
| Ro 7:09 | For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. |
| Ro 7:12 | Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. |
| Ro 7:14 | For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. |
| Ro 7:16 | If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. |
| Ro 7:22 | For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: |
| Ro 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. |
| Ro 8:03 | 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: |
| Ro 8:04 | That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. |
| Ro 8:07 | Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. |
| Ro 9:04 | Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; |
| Ro 9:31 | But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. |
| Ro 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; |
| Ro 10:04 | For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. |
| Ro 10:05 | For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. |
| Ro 13:08 | Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. |
| Ro 13:10 | Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. |
| 1Co 7:39 | The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. |
| 1Co 9:08 | Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? |
| 1Co 9:09 | 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? |
| 1Co 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; |
| 1Co 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. |
| 1Co 14:21 | In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. |
| 1Co 14:34 | Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. |
| 1Co 15:56 | The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. |
| Ga 2:16 | Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. |
| Ga 2:19 | For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. |
| Ga 2:21 | I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. |
| Ga 3:02 | This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? |
| Ga 3:05 | He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? |
| Ga 3:10 | For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. |
| Ga 3:11 | But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. |
| Ga 3:12 | And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. |
| Ga 3:13 | Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: |
| Ga 3:17 | And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. |
| Ga 3:18 | For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. |
| Ga 3:19 | Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. |
| Ga 3:21 | Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. |
| Ga 3:23 | But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. |
| Ga 3:24 | Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. |
| Ga 4:04 | But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, |
| Ga 4:05 | To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. |
| Ga 4:21 | Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? |
| Ga 5:3 | For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. |
| Ga 5:04 | Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. |
| Ga 5:14 | For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. |
| Ga 5:18 | But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. |
| Ga 5:23 | Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. |
| Ga 6:02 | Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. |
| Ga 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. |
| Php 3:05 | Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; |
| Php 3:06 | Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. |
| Php 3:09 | 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: |
| 1Ti 1:07 | Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. |
| 1Ti 1:08 | But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; |
| 1Ti 1:09 | Knowing this, that 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, |
| Tit 3:09 | But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. |
| He 7:05 | And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: |
| He 7:11 | If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? |
| He 7:12 | For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. |
| He 7:16 | Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. |
| He 7:19 | For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. |
| He 7:28 | For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. |
| He 8:04 | For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: |
| He 9:19 | For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, |
| He 9:22 | And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. |
| He 10:01 | For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. |
| He 10:08 | Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; |
| He 10:28 | He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: |
| Ja 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. |
| Ja 2:08 | If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: |
| Ja 2:09 | But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. |
| Ja 2:10 | For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. |
| Ja 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. |
| Ja 2:12 | So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. |
| Ja 4:11 | Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. |
| 1Jn 3:04 | Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. |
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