An Outline of Moral Law

Moral Law:
Moral law is an universal unchanging rule proceeding from divine intelligence to which moral beings ought to conform that will protect the basic rights of all and bring happiness to all; a rule for action with certain resultant consequences for obedience or disobedience. A moral law without sanctions is not law, but advice; the law is a fence to show not only ownership, but also protection. These sanctions give binding force to a moral law. As the penalty for breaking it or the reward for conforming to it. The provision of law that persuades or induces obedience.

Moral law is a rule of moral action with sanctions. It is that rule to which moral agents ought to conform all their voluntary actions, and is enforced by sanctions equal to the value of the precept. It is the rule for the government of free and intelligent action, as opposed to necessary and unintelligent action. It is the law of liberty, as opposed to the law of necessity - of motive and free choice, as opposed to force of every kind.

The problems come when as with many Governments and a large of the Christian Church have leaders who do not hold to this sensible teaching. Thus the people they lead are now open to harm from those who are immoral.

Moral Government:
The highest well-being of the universe demands, and is the end of moral government.

It consists in the declaration and administration of moral law.

It includes the dispensation of rewards and punishments; and is administered by means as complicated and vast as the whole of the works, and providence, and ways, and grace of God.

It is a necessity of moral beings.

Moral Governor:
To achieve the highest well-being of the universe it must, therefore, be his right and duty to govern, whose attributes, physical and moral, best qualify him to secure the end of government.

To him all eyes and hearts should be directed, to fill this station, to exercise this control, to administer all just and necessary rewards and punishments.

It is both his right and duty to govern.

God is a Moral Governor:
He is our creator.

We are obviously responsible to Him.

He is under a moral obligation to require us to be holy, as He is holy.

It would be wrong for Him to create moral beings, and then refuse or neglect to administer over them a moral government, since government is a necessity of their nature and relations.

The Holy Bible, which has been proved a revelation from God, contains a most simple and yet comprehensive system of moral government.

If we are not sure of the above, and much more that I have left out, we are sure of nothing.

Lawless Christians...
If the law of our nation states that it is all right to end life, to lie or to deceive, to commit adultery, etc; in other words, has its foundation in selfishness. Then where does that leave the Christian?

A common idea seems to be, that a kind of obedience is rendered to God by Christians which, on Jesus' account, is accepted by God. Nevertheless, which comes short of full or entire obedience at any moment. That the gospel has somehow brought men, that is, Christians, into such a relationship, that God really accepts from them an imperfect obedience. Something far below what His law requires. That Christians are accepted and justified while they render at best but a partial obedience, and while they sin more or less at every moment.

This is wrong!
Is it possible for a moral agent partly to obey, and partly to disobey the moral law at the same time? No!

Can a person set out with the aim of doing good to God while at the same time set out with the aim of doing bad to Him? No!

Can God, in any sense, justify one who does not yield a present and full obedience to the moral law? No!

God, and therefore Jesus, requires, both in his law and his gospel, that we should choose the same end, and do whatever they do for its promotion; that is, this should be the ultimate reason for all they do. There is clearly an obligation on us.

Love and Selfishness...
Many Church people seem to have no conception of these two simple truths:

a) That love (benevolence) constitutes true Christianity; and nothing else does.

b) That selfishness is sin, and totally incompatible with Christianity.

They live on their self-indulgences, and dream of heaven. This could not be, if the true idea of Christianity, as consisting in sympathy with the benevolence of God, was fully developed in their minds. Disinterested benevolence is all that the spirit of moral law requires; that is, that the love which it requires to God and our neighbour is good-willing, willing the highest good or well-being of God, and of being in general.

Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring for ever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous.
10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
11 By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. (NIV bible)

Right and Wrong...
We Christians, and all humans, must have a moral concept, having to do with right and wrong; relating to, dealing with, or capable of making the distinction between right and wrong actions of conduct; pertaining to the discernment of good and evil. These standards of morality are absolute and cannot be twisted to mean whatever anyone wants them to mean. What we picture in our hearts is what we believe, and an incorrect picture results in an incorrect belief.

God created humans moral agents. One that acts or exerts power and existing as a complex of physical and spiritual qualities that constitute an individual. A person responsible for his acts. A person capable of right and wrong action, or being endowed with the ability to perceive what is right and proper conduct in our various relations with the power of free choice and thus able to be governed by truth addressed to our intelligence. God did not create us as animals!

The human character must be moral, with us living in a continuing state of activity or conduct that takes place in the experiences and consciousness of moral beings. Moral character is moral action or personal action. It is not something back of the will causing action, but is the action of the will itself. It is the thoughts we think the attitudes we have the things we say the actions that we take that constitute our moral character.

Moral character must be a voluntary choice of the person involved, as distinguished from a constitutional trait or natural attribute. If moral character is something fixed or something that controls the will in one direction or in another, then virtue or blame disappears, the law of cause and effect takes over, and moral action ceases to exist.

Fear of the Law...
Sadly, many Christians see law as bringing personal punishment. The biblical view is of law being a love gift. Law describes the way love must act, or action ceases to be love. Just as breaking moral law brings certain retribution, so does the blood and the cross bring certain deliverance. It is madness for a Christian counsellor to believe they can immorally interfere in a marriage and think that nothing will come of it.

In the words of a well respected Counsellor: Whosoever would enter Christian counselling not sure that God's word is absolute. Not fully settled that His laws are by revelation, and that He meant what He said. He begs of that person to get out of counselling before they do any more harm! And he meant that with every fibre of his being!

The personal moral life of a Christian minister must be above reproach, not only for their own sake but for the security of their counselee.

From the Holy Bible we have the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and approximately 385 separate commands and guidelines, which are God's description of the way reality works.

If we do not grasp the eternal reality of law and the grievous price Jesus pays for us on the cross. Satan can use the melee of the battle to put blinkers on our eyes until we no longer see the consequences of what we do nor have a conscience that works as it should.

Moral law is an universal unchanging rule proceeding from divine intelligence to which moral beings ought to conform that will protect the basic rights of all and bring happiness to all; a rule for action with certain resultant consequences for obedience or disobedience. A moral law without sanctions is not law, but advice; the law is a fence to show not only ownership, but also protection.

These sanctions give binding force to a moral law. As the penalty for breaking it or the reward for conforming to it. The provision of law that persuades or induces obedience.

Only Two Choices...
The Holy Bible portrays only two possible supreme choices in life:

a) To live for oneself and one's own well-being and happiness because self is loved more than God or fellowman considered meritorious, rewardable, and acceptable to God.

b) To live for the happiness and glory of God because He is loved above all else and one's fellowman is loved no less than self.

This supreme choice to live for the happiness of God and the welfare of fellowman has to be consciously made as an intelligent choice. The choice to live for self does not have to be consciously made; the selfish or unregenerate person makes it by default in not consciously and wilfully choosing to love God supremely and his fellowmen equally.

To say that ministers can act in faith, thus not being bound to obedience to moral law is erroneous; their salvation is at risk. Some church behaviour is arbitrary in the extreme; determined by whim, individual judgement; despotic not founded on intelligent reason.

The spirit of the law is an important aspect the reason or motive for keeping the law, the principle behind it.

1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (NIV bible)

The Christian is Commanded:
To be benevolent - good willing. To have a disposition to promote the happiness and well-being of others from a purely unselfish motive. A disinterested benevolence loving kindness or a good act towards others, given without partiality or concern about recognition and reward. A phenomenon of the will, not the emotions.

To "glorify" God is to render Him excellent by our conduct, moral and otherwise.

To have holiness, a love of right. Obeying the spiritual enlightenment that one has from a right intention of heart. The seat of affections, desires, and appetites. That which influences the will in making moral choices which in turn directs the mind to institute the chosen action. The control centre and motivating purpose, of one's life. Intelligence applied to our various relations in proper proportion and esteem. This holiness in the Christian is not the substituted righteousness and obedience of Christ, but an actual righteousness based on a right relationship with Christ [hence our ministry title, Right People].

To be merciful, not giving those who are guilty of sin against you what they deserve, is also the kind and compassionate treatment to be expected from a Christian.

An Outline of Selfishness...
To intend the opposite of benevolence, which is love in action, is to intend selfishness, which is sin in action. In addition, this sin is, and must be, purely unchristian. Described in the Holy Bible as sin - selfishness, regarding one's own interests above the welfare and happiness of others. They would offer you help saying "We love you!" But when you fail to conform to their dogma, a point of view or alleged authoritative tenet put forth as dogma without adequate grounds, they get angry and reject you; their love was in fact hate. They are licentious being hostile or offensive to accepted standards of conduct; marked by the absence of legal or moral restraints.

Law and the Gospel...
As must be clear to all involved with organised religion, moral law is not fully understood or obeyed by our legislators. However, that does not mean there is no moral government. An arrangement to regulate the conduct of moral beings by enlightening their minds as to what actions [counselling a spouse in secret?] are right and proper, and by solemn pronouncement that certain consequences will follow right action and opposite consequences wrong action so that mankind will fulfil his planned relationships.

God is omnipotent, having unlimited or universal power. In the moral realm however God has limited His own power by giving to man the power of free will, whereby he can act entirely according to his own dictates and violate own intelligence and God's will if he chooses. The present state of the world is a graphic and tragic illustration of this fact. Because of this self-imposed limitation of His power God cannot do many things. For example, He cannot make anyone love Him. Omnipotence is a natural attribute of the Godhead in that it is an unchangeable fact concerning His being, as opposed to a moral attribute which is a matter of choice.

Perfection as a biblical requirement for us pertains to our motives and not our actions. To be perfect in all our actions, we would have to have perfect and infinite knowledge and perfect abilities, which we do not have. Only Jesus in human form was thus perfect. To be perfect, we must honestly and without selfish motive intend good towards God and his fellowman in everything he does. Persevering in a continuance of happy submission to our most holy faith. Living in Him until the end of our earthly life in order for our souls to be saved.

Romans 3:26 he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. (NIV bible)

Not going on in blind faith, but going on with confidence in a fact or person based on previous experience or knowledge of reliableness and consistency; a phenomenon of the will in obeying spiritual enlightenment, given upon repentance of sins and trusting Christ Jesus. "Saving" faith is the life of God in the soul of man resulting from a subjective experience founded upon objective truth.

Believing in the Gospel; Jesus Christ's true message to the world; the good news that Christ was crucified for our sins, was buried, rose again, and was seen among men; a specifically true statement.

As we have all broken the moral law from choice, Jesus' act met the righteous demands of a broken moral law, making it possible for God, as moral governor, to forgive, to appease.

The sinner on seeing the light of Jesus' gospel becomes repentant having a change of mind and opinion concerning sin as it is seen in its true perspective resulting in a turning from sin and a turning to God, a change in the reason for being. It involves Godly sorrow, or being truly sorry for what one's personal sin has done to God. Moreover, to your fellow man!

That those who have taken advantage of this powerful and fully functional act are restored to friendship, compatibility, or harmony; to have adjusted or settled differences; to restore to favour.

Through the death of Christ they are redeemed, recovered, freed, rescued, brought back to be released on receipt of a ransom. Thus, deliverance from the bondage, power and penalty of sin into a life of liberty.

They start to live a life of right action, conforming to divine or moral law. Having a disposition to deal rightly with every moral being.

Righteousness as a moral attribute of God is God's determination, a good word, to treat every moral being according to his conduct and to dispense justice between moral beings.

They are saved from the power and penalty of sin by being in a present right relationship with God and their fellowmen. To be in a state of salvation is to be reconciled to God, to have a personal and intimate relationship with Him, to love Him supremely and our fellowmen equally.

Christians who know the absoluteness of God's laws need not fear; it takes a humble mind to be settled honestly upon the truth of God's word, and an arrogant mind not to be settled.

The Law of God
Is absolute and perpetual.
Matthew 5:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. (NIV bible)

Given:

To Adam.
Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." (NIV bible)

Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned-- 13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. (NIV bible)

To Noah.
Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man. (NIV bible)

To the Israelites.
Exodus 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (NIV bible)

Psalm 75:5 Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak with outstretched neck.'" (NIV bible)

Through Moses.
Exodus 31:18 When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God. (NIV bible)

John 7:19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?" (NIV bible)

Through the ministration of angels.
Acts 7:53 you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it." (NIV bible)

Galatians 3:19 What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator. (NIV bible)

Hebrews 2:2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, (NIV bible)

Described as:

Pure.
Psalm 19:8 The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. (NIV bible)

Spiritual
Romans 7:14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. (NIV bible)

Holy, just, and good.
Romans 7:12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. (NIV bible)

Exceeding broad.
Psalm 119:96 To all perfection I see a limit; but your commands are boundless. Mem (NIV bible)

Perfect.
Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. (NIV bible)

Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. (NIV bible)

Truth.
Psalm 119:142 Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true. (NIV bible)

Not grievous.
1 John 5:3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, (NIV bible)

Requires obedience of the heart.
Psalm 51:6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. (NIV bible)

Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (NIV bible)

Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' (NIV bible)

Requires perfect obedience.
Deuteronomy 27:26 "Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!" (NIV bible)

Galatians 3:10 All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." (NIV bible)

James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. (NIV bible)

Love is the fulfilling of.
Romans 13:8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbour as yourself." 10 Love does no harm to its neighbour. Therefore love is the fulfilment of the law. (NIV bible)

Galatians 5:14 The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbour as yourself." (NIV bible)

James 2:8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbour as yourself," you are doing right. (NIV bible)

It is man's duty to keep.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. (NIV bible)

Man, by nature, not in subjection to.
Romans 7:5 For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. (NIV bible)

Romans 8:7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. (NIV bible)

Man cannot render perfect obedience to,
1 Kings 8:46 "When they sin against you--for there is no one who does not sin--and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to his own land, far away or near; (NIV bible)

Ecclesiastes 7:20 There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins. (NIV bible)

Romans 3:10 As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; (NIV bible)

Sin is a transgression of.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. (NIV bible)

All men have transgressed.
Romans 3:9 What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. (NIV bible)

Man cannot be justified by.
Acts 13:39 Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses. (NIV bible)

Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.
28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. (NIV bible)

Galatians 2:16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified. (NIV bible)

Galatians 3:11 Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." (NIV bible)

Gives the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet." (NIV bible)

Worketh wrath.
Romans 4:15 because law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression. (NIV bible)

Conscience testifies to.
Romans 2:15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.) (NIV bible)

Designed to lead to Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:24 So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. (NIV bible)

Obedience to:

A characteristic of Christians.
Revelation 12:17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring--those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus. (NIV bible)

A test of love.
1 John 5:3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, (NIV bible)

Of prime importance.
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commands is what counts. (NIV bible)

Blessedness of keeping.
Psalm 119:1 Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. (NIV bible)

Matthew 5:19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (NIV bible)

1 John 3:22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
24 Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us. (NIV bible)

Revelation 22:14 "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. (NIV bible)

The Lord Jesus Christ:

Came to fulfil.
Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them. (NIV bible)

Magnified.
Isaiah 42:21 It pleased the LORD for the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious. (NIV bible)

Explained.
Matthew 7:12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the (NIV bible)

Prophets.
Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (NIV bible)

The love of, produces peace.
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble. (NIV bible)

Christians:

Freed from the bondage of.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. (NIV bible)

Romans 7:4 So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. (NIV bible)

Freed from the curse of.
Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." (NIV bible)

Have, written on their hearts.
Jeremiah 31:33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (NIV bible)

Hebrews 8:10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (NIV bible)

Love.
Psalm 119:113 I hate double-minded men, but I love your law. (NIV bible)

Delight in.
Psalm 119:77 Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight. (NIV bible)

Romans 7:22 For in my inner being I delight in God's law; (NIV bible)

Prepare their hearts to seek.
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the LORD, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel. (NIV bible)

Pledge themselves to walk in.
Nehemiah 10:29 all these now join their brothers the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord. (NIV bible)

Keep.
Psalm 119:55 In the night I remember your name, O LORD, and I will keep your law. (NIV bible)

Pray to understand.
Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. (NIV bible)

Pray for power to keep.
Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart. (NIV bible)

Should remember.
Malachi 4:4 "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel. (NIV bible)

Should make, the subject of their conversation.
Exodus 13:9 This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand. (NIV bible)

Lament over the violation of, by others.
Psalm 119:136 Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed. (NIV bible)

The Wicked:

Despise.
Amos 2:4 This is what the LORD says: "For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath. Because they have rejected the law of the LORD and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods, the gods their ancestors followed, (NIV bible)

Forget.
Hosea 4:6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. (NIV bible)

Forsake.
2 Chronicles 12:1 After Rehoboam's position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel with him abandoned the law of the LORD. (NIV bible)

Jeremiah 9:13 The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law. (NIV bible)

Refuse to hear.
Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD'S instruction. (NIV bible)

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law. (NIV bible)

Refuse to walk in.
Psalm 78:10 they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law. (NIV bible)

Cast away.
Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel. (NIV bible)

Is the rule of life to Christians.
1 Corinthians 9:21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law. (NIV bible)

Galatians 5:13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. 14 The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbour as yourself." (NIV bible)

Is the rule of judgement
Romans 2:12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. (NIV bible)

To be used lawfully.
1 Timothy 1:8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. (NIV bible)

Established by faith.
Romans 3:31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law. (NIV bible)

Punishment for disobeying.
Nehemiah 9:26 "But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they put your law behind their backs. They killed your prophets, who had admonished them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies. 27 So you handed them over to their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies. (NIV bible)

Isaiah 65:11 "But as for you who forsake the LORD and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny, 12 I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me." 13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame. (NIV bible)

Jeremiah 9:13 The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law. 14 Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their fathers taught them." 15 Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water. 16 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have destroyed them." (NIV bible)

Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. (NIV bible)