νόμος nómos

Meaning

law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle)

In the King James Version: law

Derivation: from a primary (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals);

Where it is used

• Galatians 3:23 Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
• Galatians 3:24 So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Galatians 4:5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
• Galatians 4:21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
• Galatians 5:3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
• Galatians 5:4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
• Galatians 5:14 The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
• Galatians 5:23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
• Galatians 6:2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
• Galatians 6:13 For 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 by 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 peace
• Philippians 3:5 circumcised 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 as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
• Philippians 3:9 and 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 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.
• 1 Timothy 1:9 We 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 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 For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed as well.
• Hebrews 7:16 one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.
• Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
• Hebrews 7:28 For 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 Now 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 For 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 For 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 According 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 For 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 In 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 “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 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
• James 1:25 But 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 If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
• James 2:9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
• James 2:10 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
• James 2:11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
• James 2:12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.
• James 4:11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.