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Noun nomos (law) in the New Testament
(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 5: 17 | "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law (nomos) or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. |
| 5: 18 | For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law (nomos) until all is accomplished. |
| 7: 12 | "In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law (nomos) and the prophets. |
| 11: 13 | For all the prophets and the law (nomos) prophesied until John came; |
| 12: 5 | Or have you not read in the law (nomos) that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? |
| 22: 36 | "Teacher, which commandment in the law (nomos) is the greatest?" |
| 22: 40 | On these two commandments hang all the law (nomos) and the prophets." |
| 23: 23 | "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law (nomos): justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others. |
Luke
| 2: 22 | When the time came for their purification according to the law (nomos) of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord |
| 2: 23 | (as it is written in the law (nomos) of the Lord, "Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord"), |
| 2: 24 | and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law (nomos) of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons." |
| 2: 27 | Guided by the Spirit, Simeon came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary under the law (nomos), |
| 2: 39 | When they had finished everything required by the law (nomos) of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. |
| 10: 26 | He said to him, "What is written in the law (nomos)? What do you read there?" |
| 16: 16 | "The law (nomos) and the prophets were in effect until John came; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone tries to enter it by force. |
| 16: 17 | But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one stroke of a letter in the law (nomos) to be dropped. |
| 24: 44 | Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you - that everything written about me in the law (nomos) of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled." |
John
| 1: 17 | The law (nomos) indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. |
| 1: 45 | Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the law (nomos) and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth." |
| 7: 19 | "Did not Moses give you the law (nomos)? Yet none of you keeps the law (nomos). Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?" |
| 7: 23 | If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath in order that the law (nomos) of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I healed a man's whole body on the sabbath? |
| 7: 49 | But this crowd, which does not know the law (nomos) - they are accursed." |
| 7: 51 | "Our law (nomos) does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?" |
| 8: 5 | Now in the law (nomos) Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" |
| 8: 17 | In your law (nomos) it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid. |
| 10: 34 | Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law (nomos), 'I said, you are gods'? |
| 12: 34 | The crowd answered him, "We have heard from the law (nomos) that the Messiah remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?" |
| 15: 25 | It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law (nomos), 'They hated me without a cause.' |
| 18: 31 | Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law (nomos)." The Jews replied, "We are not permitted to put anyone to death." |
| 19: 7 | The Jews answered him, "We have a law (nomos), and according to that law (nomos) he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God." |
Acts
| 6: 13 | They set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law (nomos); |
| 7: 53 | You are the ones that received the law (nomos) as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it." |
| 13: 15 | After the reading of the law (nomos) and the prophets, the officials of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, give it." |
| 13: 38 | Let it be known to you therefore, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you; |
| 15: 5 | But some believers who belonged to the sect of the Pharisees stood up and said, "It is necessary for them to be circumcised and ordered to keep the law (nomos) of Moses." |
| 18: 13 | They said, "This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law (nomos)." |
| 18: 15 | but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law (nomos), see to it yourselves; I do not wish to be a judge of these matters." |
| 21: 20 | When they heard it, they praised God. Then they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealous for the law (nomos). |
| 21: 24 | Join these men, go through the rite of purification with them, and pay for the shaving of their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself observe and guard the law (nomos). |
| 21: 28 | shouting, "Fellow Israelites, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against our people, our law (nomos), and this place; more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place." |
| 22: 3 | "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to our ancestral law (nomos), being zealous for God, just as all of you are today. |
| 22: 12 | "A certain Ananias, who was a devout man according to the law (nomos) and well spoken of by all the Jews living there, |
| 23: 3 | At this Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting there to judge me according to the law (nomos), and yet in violation of the law (nomos) you order me to be struck?" |
| 23: 29 | I found that he was accused concerning questions of their law (nomos), but was charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment. |
| 24: 14 | But this I admit to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our ancestors, believing everything laid down according to the law (nomos) or written in the prophets. |
| 25: 8 | Paul said in his defense, "I have in no way committed an offense against the law (nomos) of the Jews, or against the temple, or against the emperor." |
| 28: 23 | After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his lodgings in great numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law (nomos) of Moses and from the prophets. |
Philippians
| 3: 5 | circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law (nomos), a Pharisee; |
| 3: 6 | as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law (nomos), blameless. |
| 3: 9 | and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law (nomos), but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. |
1 Corinthians
| 9: 8 | Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law (nomos) also say the same? |
| 9: 9 | For it is written in the law (nomos) of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? |
| 9: 20 | To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law (nomos) I became as one under the law (nomos) (though I myself am not under the law (nomos)) so that I might win those under the law (nomos). |
| 14: 21 | In the law (nomos) it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people; yet even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord. |
| 14: 34 | women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law (nomos) also says. |
| 15: 56 | The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law (nomos). |
Galatians
| 2: 16 | yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law (nomos) but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law (nomos), because no one will be justified by the works of the law (nomos). |
| 2: 19 | For through the law (nomos) I died to the law (nomos), so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; |
| 2: 21 | I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law (nomos), then Christ died for nothing. |
| 3: 2 | The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law (nomos) or by believing what you heard? |
| 3: 5 | Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law (nomos), or by your believing what you heard? |
| 3: 10 | For all who rely on the works of the law (nomos) are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law (nomos)." |
| 3: 11 | Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law (nomos); for "The one who is righteous will live by faith." |
| 3: 12 | But the law (nomos) does not rest on faith; on the contrary, "Whoever does its works will live by them." |
| 3: 13 | Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law (nomos) by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree" |
| 3: 17 | My point is this: the law (nomos), which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. |
| 3: 18 | For if the inheritance comes from the law (nomos), it no longer comes from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise. |
| 3: 19 | Why then the law (nomos)? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained through angels by a mediator. |
| 3: 21 | Is the law (nomos) then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law (nomos) had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law (nomos). |
| 3: 23 | Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law (nomos) until faith would be revealed. |
| 3: 24 | Therefore the law (nomos) was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. |
| 4: 4 | But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law (nomos), |
| 4: 5 | in order to redeem those who were under the law (nomos), so that we might receive adoption as children. |
| 4: 21 | Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law (nomos), will you not listen to the law (nomos)? |
| 5: 3 | Once again I testify to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the entire law (nomos). |
| 5: 4 | You who want to be justified by the law (nomos) have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. |
| 5: 14 | For the whole law (nomos) is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." |
| 5: 18 | But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law (nomos). |
| 5: 23 | gentleness, and self-control. There is no law (nomos) against such things. |
| 6: 2 | Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law (nomos) of Christ. |
| 6: 13 | Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law (nomos), but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh. |
Romans
| 2: 12 | All who have sinned without-law will also perish without-law, and all who have sinned under the law (nomos) will be judged by the law (nomos). |
| 2: 13 | For it is not the hearers of the law (nomos) who are righteous in God's sight, but the doers of the law (nomos) who will be justified. |
| 2: 14 | When Gentiles, who do not possess the law (nomos), do instinctively what the law (nomos) requires, these, though not having the law (nomos), are a law (nomos) to themselves. |
| 2: 15 | They show that what the law (nomos) requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them |
| 2: 17 | But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law (nomos) and boast of your relation to God |
| 2: 18 | and know his will and determine what is best because you are instructed in the law (nomos), |
| 2: 20 | a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law (nomos) the embodiment of knowledge and truth, |
| 2: 23 | You that boast in the law (nomos), do you dishonor God by breaking the law (nomos)? |
| 2: 25 | Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law (nomos); but if you break the law (nomos), your circumcision has become uncircumcision. |
| 2: 26 | So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law (nomos), will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? |
| 2: 27 | Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law (nomos) will condemn you that have the written code and circumcision but break the law (nomos). |
| 3: 19 | Now we know that whatever the law (nomos) says, it speaks to those who are under the law (nomos), so that every mouth may be silenced, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. |
| 3: 20 | For "no human being will be justified in his sight" by deeds prescribed by the law (nomos), for through the law (nomos) comes the knowledge of sin. |
| 3: 21 | But now, apart from law (nomos), the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law (nomos) and the prophets, |
| 3: 27 | Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law (nomos)? By that of works? No, but by the law (nomos) of faith. |
| 3: 28 | For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law (nomos). |
| 3: 31 | Do we then overthrow the law (nomos) by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law (nomos). |
| 4: 13 | For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law (nomos) but through the righteousness of faith. |
| 4: 14 | If it is the adherents of the law (nomos) who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. |
| 4: 15 | For the law (nomos) brings wrath; but where there is no law (nomos), neither is there violation. |
| 4: 16 | For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law (nomos) but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, |
| 5: 13 | sin was indeed in the world before the law (nomos), but sin is not reckoned when there is no law (nomos). |
| 5: 20 | But law (nomos) came in, with the result that the trespass multiplied; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, |
| 6: 14 | For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law (nomos) but under grace. |
| 6: 15 | What then? Should we sin because we are not under law (nomos) but under grace? By no means! |
| 7: 1 | Do you not know, brothers and sisters - for I am speaking to those who know the law (nomos) - that the law (nomos) is binding on a person only during that person's lifetime? |
| 7: 2 | Thus a married woman is bound by the law (nomos) to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law (nomos) concerning the husband. |
| 7: 3 | Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law (nomos), and if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress. |
| 7: 4 | In the same way, my friends, you have died to the law (nomos) through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. |
| 7: 5 | While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law (nomos), were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. |
| 7: 6 | But now we are discharged from the law (nomos), dead to that which held us captive, so that we are slaves not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit. |
| 7: 7 | What then should we say? That the law (nomos) is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law (nomos), I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law (nomos) had not said, "You shall not covet." |
| 7: 8 | But sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law (nomos) sin lies dead. |
| 7: 9 | I was once alive apart from the law (nomos), but when the commandment came, sin revived |
| 7: 12 | So the law (nomos) is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. |
| 7: 14 | For we know that the law (nomos) is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin. |
| 7: 16 | Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law (nomos) is good. |
| 7: 21 | So I find it to be a law (nomos) that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. |
| 7: 22 | For I delight in the law (nomos) of God in my inmost self, |
| 7: 23 | but I see in my members another law (nomos) at war with the law (nomos) of my mind, making me captive to the law (nomos) of sin that dwells in my members. |
| 7: 25 | Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law (nomos) of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law (nomos) of sin. |
| 8: 2 | For the law (nomos) of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law (nomos) of sin and of death. |
| 8: 3 | For God has done what the law (nomos), weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, |
| 8: 4 | so that the just requirement of the law (nomos) might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. |
Ephesians
| 2: 15 | He has abolished the law (nomos) with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, |
1 Timothy
| 1: 8 | Now we know that the law (nomos) is good, if one uses it legitimately. |
| 1: 9 | This means understanding that the law (nomos) is laid down not for the innocent but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers, |
Hebrews
| 7: 5 | And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law (nomos) to collect tithes from the people, that is, from their kindred, though these also are descended from Abraham. |
| 7: 12 | For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law (nomos) as well. |
| 7: 16 | one who has become a priest, not through a law (nomos) of physical commandment, but through the power of an indestructible life. |
| 7: 19 | (for the law (nomos) made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God. |
| 7: 28 | For the law (nomos) appoints as high priests those who are subject to weakness, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law (nomos), appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever. |
| 8: 4 | Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law (nomos). |
| 8: 10 | This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws (nomos) in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
| 9: 19 | For when every commandment had been told to all the people by Moses in accordance with the law (nomos), he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, |
| 9: 22 | Indeed, under the law (nomos) almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. |
| 10: 1 | Since the law (nomos) has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach. |
| 10: 8 | When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law (nomos)), |
| 10: 16 | "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws (nomos) in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds," |
| 10: 28 | Anyone who has violated the law (nomos) of Moses dies without mercy "on the testimony of two or three witnesses." |
James
| 1: 25 | But those who look into the perfect law (nomos), the one of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act - they will be blessed in their doing. |
| 2: 8 | You do well if you really fulfill the royal law (nomos) according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." |
| 2: 9 | But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law (nomos) as transgressors. |
| 2: 10 | For whoever keeps the whole law (nomos) but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. |
| 2: 11 | For the one who said, "You shall not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law (nomos). |
| 2: 12 | So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law (nomos) of liberty. |
| 4: 11 | Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law (nomos) and judges the law (nomos); but if you judge the law (nomos), you are not a doer of the law (nomos) but a judge. |
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