Bible Cross References
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John 1:17
God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 5:45
Do not think, however, that I am the one who will accuse you to my Father. Moses, in whom you have put your hope, is the very one who will accuse you.
John 9:28
They insulted him and said, "You are that fellow's disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
John 9:29
We know that God spoke to Moses; as for that fellow, however, we do not even know where he comes from!"
Exodus 24:2
You alone, and none of the others, are to come near me. The people are not even to come up the mountain."
Exodus 24:3
Moses went and told the people all the LORD's commands and all the ordinances, and all the people answered together, "We will do everything that the LORD has said."
Deuteronomy 33:4
We obey the Law that Moses gave us, our nation's most treasured possession.
Deuteronomy 1:17
Show no partiality in your decisions; judge everyone on the same basis, no matter who they are. Do not be afraid of anyone, for the decisions you make come from God. If any case is too difficult for you, bring it to me, and I will decide it.'
Acts 7:38
He is the one who was with the people of Israel assembled in the desert; he was there with our ancestors and with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and he received God's living messages to pass on to us.
Galatians 3:19
What, then, was the purpose of the Law? It was added in order to show what wrongdoing is, and it was meant to last until the coming of Abraham's descendant, to whom the promise was made. The Law was handed down by angels, with a man acting as a go-between.
Hebrews 3:3-5
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A man who builds a house receives more honor than the house itself. In the same way Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses.
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Every house, of course, is built by someone---and God is the one who has built all things.
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Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant, and he spoke of the things that God would say in the future.
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Matthew 23:2-4
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"The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees are the authorized interpreters of Moses' Law.
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So you must obey and follow everything they tell you to do; do not, however, imitate their actions, because they don't practice what they preach.
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They tie onto people's backs loads that are heavy and hard to carry, yet they aren't willing even to lift a finger to help them carry those loads.
Romans 2:12
The Gentiles do not have the Law of Moses; they sin and are lost apart from the Law. The Jews have the Law; they sin and are judged by the Law.
Romans 2:13
For it is not by hearing the Law that people are put right with God, but by doing what the Law commands.
Romans 2:17-29
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What about you? You call yourself a Jew; you depend on the Law and boast about God;
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you know what God wants you to do, and you have learned from the Law to choose what is right;
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you are sure that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in darkness,
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an instructor for the foolish, and a teacher for the ignorant. You are certain that in the Law you have the full content of knowledge and of truth.
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You teach others---why don't you teach yourself ? You preach, "Do not steal"---but do you yourself steal?
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You say, "Do not commit adultery"---but do you commit adultery? You detest idols---but do you rob temples?
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You boast about having God's law---but do you bring shame on God by breaking his law?
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The scripture says, "Because of you Jews, the Gentiles speak evil of God."
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If you obey the Law, your circumcision is of value; but if you disobey the Law, you might as well never have been circumcised.
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If the Gentile, who is not circumcised, obeys the commands of the Law, will not God regard him as though he were circumcised?
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And so you Jews will be condemned by the Gentiles because you break the Law, even though you have it written down and are circumcised; but they obey the Law, even though they are not physically circumcised.
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After all, who is a real Jew, truly circumcised? It is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, whose circumcision is a physical thing.
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Rather, the real Jew is the person who is a Jew on the inside, that is, whose heart has been circumcised, and this is the work of God's Spirit, not of the written Law. Such a person receives praise from God, not from human beings.
Romans 3:10-23
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As the Scriptures say: "There is no one who is righteous,
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no one who is wise or who worships God.
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All have turned away from God; they have all gone wrong; no one does what is right, not even one.
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Their words are full of deadly deceit; wicked lies roll off their tongues, and dangerous threats, like snake's poison, from their lips;
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their speech is filled with bitter curses.
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They are quick to hurt and kill;
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they leave ruin and destruction wherever they go.
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They have not known the path of peace,
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nor have they learned reverence for God."
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Now we know that everything in the Law applies to those who live under the Law, in order to stop all human excuses and bring the whole world under God's judgment.
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For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have sinned.
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But now God's way of putting people right with himself has been revealed. It has nothing to do with law, even though the Law of Moses and the prophets gave their witness to it.
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God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all:
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everyone has sinned and is far away from God's saving presence.
Galatians 6:13
Even those who practice circumcision do not obey the Law; they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast that you submitted to this physical ceremony.
Why
John 7:25
Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this the man the authorities are trying to kill?
John 5:16
So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath.
John 5:18
This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.
John 10:31
Then the people again picked up stones to throw at him.
John 10:32
Jesus said to them, "I have done many good deeds in your presence which the Father gave me to do; for which one of these do you want to stone me?"
John 10:39
Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he slipped out of their hands.
John 11:53
From that day on the Jewish authorities made plans to kill Jesus.
Psalm 2:1-6
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Why do the nations plan rebellion? Why do people make their useless plots?
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Their kings revolt, their rulers plot together against the LORD and against the king he chose.
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"Let us free ourselves from their rule," they say; "let us throw off their control."
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From his throne in heaven the Lord laughs and mocks their feeble plans.
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Then he warns them in anger and terrifies them with his fury.
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"On Zion, my sacred hill," he says, "I have installed my king."
Matthew 12:14
Then the Pharisees left and made plans to kill Jesus.
Matthew 21:38
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the owner's son. Come on, let's kill him, and we will get his property!'
Mark 3:4
Then he asked the people, "What does our Law allow us to do on the Sabbath? To help or to harm? To save someone's life or to destroy it?" But they did not say a thing.
Mark 3:6
So the Pharisees left the synagogue and met at once with some members of Herod's party, and they made plans to kill Jesus.