Are Christians Required to Keep the Law?
A list of Bible verses about the Law of Moses helping to answer the question, "Are Christians Required to Keep the Law?"
VERSE CHALLENGE
Acts 15:5, 10
Some believers argued:
“That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
Peter answered:
“Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”
Romans 7:4, 6
“Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ.”
“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.”
Romans 10:4
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”
2 Corinthians 3:6–7, 11
“Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit.”
“But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious…”
“For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.”
Galatians 3:19, 24–25
Context: Paul was speaking primarily to uncircumsized, gentile Christians in an area that had its predominant ancestry in Gaul, or what is commonly called a “Germanic” territory. These believers were being coerced by Judaizers to keep the Mosaic Law.
“Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made.”
“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.”
“But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.”
Galatians 4:24, 31
“For these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage.”
“So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.”
Galatians 5:3–4
“For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.”
“Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law.”
Ephesians 2:13, 15
“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
“Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances.”
Colossians 2:14, 16
“Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.”
“Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days.”
Hebrews 7:12, 18
“For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.”
“For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.”
Hebrews 8:7, 13
“For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.”
“In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.”
Hebrews 10:9
“Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.”
Why was Timothy circumsized and Titus not?
Acts 16:1–3
Context: Timothy was circumcized “because of the Jews” while Titus was not because “we did not yield submission.”