ROMANS 4:15 "Where there is no law, there is no violation."
ROMANS 5:13 "For sin is the transgression of the law" ( 1 John 3:4).
Certainly, Lucifer sinned, when he rebelled against God in heaven. That means there was a LAW in heaven.
HOSEA 6:7, JOB 31:33 Adam sinned.
GENESIS 6:5 The people of Noah’s day sinned.
GENESIS 18:20 Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their lawlessness (sin).
These people lived long before Mt. Sinai.
GENESIS 26:5 Abraham kept Gods "commandments," and His "laws."
EXODUS 16:25 To the children of Israel, before Mt. Sinai, God said "How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?"
COMMANDMENTS |
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES |
First |
Gen. 35:2-4 "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean." |
Second |
Gen. 31:19-34; Gen. 35:2-4. |
Third |
Ex. 5:2 Pharaoh blasphemed God and suffered the consequences. |
Fourth |
Ex. 16:4-30 "Six days shall ye gather it: but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none." "How long do you refuse to keep my laws." |
Fifth |
Gen. 9:20-25 Canaan was cursed because his father, Ham, showed disrespect for his grandfather, Noah |
Sixth |
Gen. 4:11,12 "Cain was marked for the murder of his brother Able." |
Seventh |
Gen. 39:9 "Joseph refused to sin against God by sleeping with Potiphar’s wife." |
Eighth |
Gen. 44:8,16 "Behold the money which we found in our sack’s mouths, we brought, again unto out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy Lord’s house silver or gold?" |
Ninth |
Gen. 27:2-46 Jacob deceived his father and had to run for his life. (Gen. 20:9) |
Tenth |
Gen. 25:29-34 Jacob coveted Esau’s birthright, and lied to his father. |
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