νόμος, -ου, ὁ (νέμω, to deal out, distribute), [in LXX chiefly for תּוֹרָה, also for חֻקָּה, etc. ;] that which is assigned, hence, usage, custom, then law; in NT (only in Mt, Jo, Ja, and the Lucan and Pauline bks.); 1. of law in general: Rom.3:27 5:13b; pl., of divine laws, Heb.8:10 10:16; ὁ ν. τ. Χριστοῦ, Gal.6:2; (τ.) ἐλευθερίας, Jas.1:25 2:12; βασιλικιός (Hort., in l.; Deiss., LAE, 267:3), Jas.2:8. 2. Of a force or influence impelling to action: Rom.7:21, 23a, 25 8:2. 3. Of the Mosaic law: Mat.5:18, Luk.2:27, Jhn.1:17, Act.6:13, Rom.2:15, 1Co.9:8, 1Ti.1:8, Heb.7:19; al.; Μωυσέως, Luk.2:22, Jhn.7:23, Act.15:5, al.; κυρίου, Luk.2:39; κατὰ τὸν ν., Act.22:12, Heb.7:5 9:22. 4. As printed, Abbott-Smith mistakenly numbers this as 3.Anarthrous (Bl, §46, 8; ICC on Rom.2:12, 13), νόμος, (a) of law in general: Rom.2:12, 14b 3:20, 21 4:15, al.; (b) of the Mosaic law in its quality as law: Rom.2:14a 5:20 10:4, Gal.2:19, al.; οἱ ἐκ ν., Rom.4:14; ὑπὸ νόμον, 1Co.9:20, Gal.4:5; ν. πράσσειν (πληροῦν), Rom.2:25 13:8. 5. Of Christian teaching: ν. πίστεως, Rom.3:27; τ. Χριστοῦ, Gal.6:2. 6. By meton., of the books which contain the law; (a) of the Pentateuch: Mat.12:5, Jhn.1:45, al.; ὁ ν. καὶ οἱ προφῆται, Mat.5:17, Luk.16:16, al.; ὁ ν. καὶ προφῆται κ. ψαλμοί, Luk.24:44. (b) of the OT Scriptures in general (as Heb. תּוֹרָה): Jhn.10:34 12:34 15:25, 1Co.14:21, al. (AS)
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G3551 — νόμος
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Matthew 5:17 · νόμονDo not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.Matthew 5:18 · νόμουFor I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.Matthew 7:12 · νόμοςIn everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.Matthew 11:13 · νόμοςFor all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.Matthew 12:5 · νόμῳOr haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?Matthew 22:36 · νόμῳ;“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”Matthew 22:40 · νόμοςAll the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”Matthew 23:23 · νόμου,Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.Luke 2:22 · νόμονAnd when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the LordLuke 2:23 · νόμῳ(as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),Luke 2:24 · νόμῳand to offer the sacrifice specified in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”Luke 2:27 · νόμουLed by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for Him what was customary under the Law,Luke 2:39 · νόμονWhen Jesus’ parents had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.Luke 10:26 · νόμῳ“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”Luke 16:16 · νόμοςThe Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.Luke 16:17 · νόμουBut it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.Luke 24:44 · νόμῳJesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”John 1:17 · νόμοςFor the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.John 1:45 · νόμῳPhilip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”John 7:19 · νόμον; · νόμον·Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”John 7:23 · νόμοςIf a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?John 7:49 · νόμονBut this crowd that does not know the law—they are under a curse.”John 7:51 · νόμος“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”John 8:17 · νόμῳEven in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.John 10:34 · νόμῳJesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?John 12:34 · νόμουThe crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”John 15:25 · νόμῳBut this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’John 18:31 · νόμον“You take Him and judge Him by your own law,” Pilate told them. “We are not permitted to execute anyone,” the Jews replied.John 19:7 · νόμον · νόμον“We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”Acts 6:13 · νόμου·where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.Acts 7:53 · νόμονyou who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”Acts 13:15 · νόμουAfter the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them: “Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak.”Acts 13:39 · νόμῳThrough Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.Acts 15:5 · νόμονBut some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”Acts 18:13 · νόμον“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.Acts 18:15 · νόμουBut since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”Acts 21:20 · νόμουWhen they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.Acts 21:24 · νόμον.Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.Acts 21:28 · νόμουcrying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”Acts 22:3 · νόμου,“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.Acts 22:12 · νόμον,There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the law who was highly regarded by all the Jews living there,Acts 23:3 · νόμον,Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”Acts 23:29 · νόμουI found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.Acts 24:14 · νόμονI do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,Acts 25:8 · νόμονThen Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”Acts 28:23 · νόμουSo they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.Romans 2:12 · νόμῳ · νόμουAll 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.Romans 2:13 · νόμου · νόμουFor it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.Romans 2:14 · νόμον · νόμου · νόμον · νόμος,Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.Romans 2:15 · νόμουSo they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending themRomans 2:17 · νόμῳNow you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;Romans 2:18 · νόμου·if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;Romans 2:20 · νόμῳ·an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—Romans 2:23 · νόμῳ · νόμουYou who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?Romans 2:25 · νόμον · νόμουCircumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Romans 2:26 · νόμουIf a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?Romans 2:27 · νόμον · νόμου.The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.Romans 3:19 · νόμος · νόμῳNow 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.Romans 3:20 · νόμου · νόμουTherefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.Romans 3:21 · νόμου · νόμουBut now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.Romans 3:27 · νόμου; · νόμουWhere, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.Romans 3:28 · νόμου.For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.Romans 3:31 · νόμον · νόμονDo we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.Romans 4:13 · νόμουFor the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.Romans 4:14 · νόμουFor if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,Romans 4:15 · νόμος · νόμος,because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.Romans 4:16 · νόμουTherefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.Romans 5:13 · νόμου · νόμου·For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.Romans 5:20 · ΝόμοςThe law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,Romans 6:14 · νόμονFor sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.Romans 6:15 · νόμονWhat then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!Romans 7:1 · νόμον · νόμοςDo you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?Romans 7:2 · νόμῳ· · νόμουFor instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.Romans 7:3 · νόμουSo then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.Romans 7:4 · νόμῳTherefore, 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.Romans 7:5 · νόμουFor when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.Romans 7:6 · νόμουBut now, having died to what 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.Romans 7:7 · νόμος · νόμου· · νόμοςWhat then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”Romans 7:8 · νόμουBut sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.Romans 7:9 · νόμουOnce I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.Romans 7:12 · νόμοςSo then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.Romans 7:14 · νόμοςWe know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.Romans 7:16 · νόμῳAnd if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.Romans 7:21 · νόμονSo this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.Romans 7:22 · νόμῳFor in my inner being I delight in God’s law.Romans 7:23 · νόμον · νόμῳ · νόμῳBut I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.Romans 7:25 · νόμῳ · νόμῳThanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.Romans 8:2 · νόμος · νόμουFor in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.Romans 8:3 · νόμου,For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,Romans 8:4 · νόμουso that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.Romans 8:7 · νόμῳbecause the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.Romans 9:31 · νόμον · νόμονbut Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.Romans 10:4 · νόμουFor Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.Romans 10:5 · νόμουFor concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”Romans 13:8 · νόμονBe indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.Romans 13:10 · νόμουLove does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.1 Corinthians 9:8 · νόμοςDo I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?1 Corinthians 9:9 · νόμῳFor it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?1 Corinthians 9:20 · νόμον · νόμον, · νόμον, · νόμονTo the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.1 Corinthians 14:21 · νόμῳIt is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”1 Corinthians 14:34 · νόμοςWomen are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.1 Corinthians 15:56 · νόμος.¶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.Galatians 2:16 · νόμου · νόμου· · νόμουknow that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.Galatians 2:19 · νόμου · νόμῳFor through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.Galatians 2:21 · νόμουI do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.Galatians 3:2 · νόμουI would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?Galatians 3:5 · νόμουDoes God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?Galatians 3:10 · νόμου · νόμουAll who rely on works of 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.”Galatians 3:11 · νόμῳNow it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”Galatians 3:12 · νόμοςThe law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”Galatians 3:13 · νόμουChrist 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.”Galatians 3:17 · νόμοςWhat I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.Galatians 3:18 · νόμουFor if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.Galatians 3:19 · νόμος;Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.Galatians 3:21 · νόμος · νόμος · νόμουIs the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.Galatians 3:23 · νόμονBefore this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.Galatians 3:24 · νόμοςSo the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.Galatians 4:4 · νόμον,But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,Galatians 4:5 · νόμονto redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.Galatians 4:21 · νόμον · νόμονTell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?Galatians 5:3 · νόμονAgain I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.Galatians 5:4 · νόμῳYou who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.Galatians 5:14 · νόμοςThe entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”Galatians 5:18 · νόμον.But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.Galatians 5:23 · νόμος.gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.Galatians 6:2 · νόμονCarry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.Galatians 6:13 · νόμονFor the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.Ephesians 2:15 · νόμονby abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peacePhilippians 3:5 · νόμονcircumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;Philippians 3:6 · νόμῳas to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.Philippians 3:9 · νόμουand be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.1 Timothy 1:8 · νόμοςNow we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.1 Timothy 1:9 · νόμοςWe realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,Hebrews 7:5 · νόμον,Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they too are descended from Abraham.Hebrews 7:12 · νόμουFor when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed as well.Hebrews 7:16 · νόμονone who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.Hebrews 7:19 · νόμος,(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.Hebrews 7:28 · νόμος · νόμονFor the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.Hebrews 8:4 · νόμονNow if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law.Hebrews 8:10 · νόμουςFor this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.Hebrews 9:19 · νόμονFor when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,Hebrews 9:22 · νόμονAccording to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.Hebrews 10:1 · νόμοςFor the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.Hebrews 10:8 · νόμονIn the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).Hebrews 10:16 · νόμους“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”Hebrews 10:28 · νόμονAnyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.James 1:25 · νόμονBut the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.James 2:8 · νόμονIf you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.James 2:9 · νόμουBut if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.James 2:10 · νόμονWhoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
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