I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

“You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

Now let the king issue a written interdict so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.

One of the experts in religious law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”

Now some of the experts in the law were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds:

He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

“‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he must be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.

Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah,

She said, “He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me, ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he places you in charge of Israel, so you may obey the law of the Lord your God.

They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the Lord. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.

He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the Lord.

Hilkiah informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.

They read from the book of God’s law, explaining it and imparting insight. Thus the people gained understanding from what was read.