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The Law of YHWH , given by Him from creation and mediated by angels to all the prophets, is the Hebrew word Torah, which means holy teaching or instruction.
The New Testament/Covenant does not negate the Torah, rather.
"Behold, the days come, declares YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt . . . But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel . . . I will put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people" (Jeremiah 31:31-33).
"And when they heard it, they glorified the LORD, and said unto him, 'You see brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe, and they are all zealous of the Torah" (Acts 21:20).
"For I say to you absolutely, until heaven and earth pass away and everything is accomplished, in no way will one small letter or one minute punctuation be taken from the Torah" (Matthew 5:18).
"Do not suppose that I am come to destroy the Torah, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to complete . . . Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But, whoever shall do them and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5: 17,19).
"Do we then make the Torah void through faith? May it never be! Rather, we establish the Torah" (Romans 3:3 1).
"Not every one who says to Me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but only he that does the will of My Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in Your name? and in Your name cast out devils? and in Your name done many wonderful works? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you! Depart from me, you who work against the Torah* " (Matthew 7:21-23).
[Note: The King James Version says "iniquity" but the Greek word is anomia, meaning lawless or ‘Torah-less ness’, anti-Torah or "against the Torah. "]
"Whoever commits sin transgresses also the Torah, for sin is the transgression of the Torah" (1 John 3:4).
"For by the Torah is the knowledge of sin" (Romans 3 :20).
"I had not known about sin, but by the Torah, for I had not known what lust is, unless the Torah had said, 'Thou shalt not covet"' (Romans 7:7).
"Therefore the Torah is holy and the commandment holy, and right, and good"
"For we know that the Torah is spiritual" (Romans 7:14).
"The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14).
"But He (Messiah) answered and said, 'It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God"' (Matthew 4:4).
"Every scripture * is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3: 16).
[Note: The early New Covenant believers had only the Torah and the prophets as their scripture. Later on Matthew]
"Shall we sin (transgress the Torah), because we are not under the Torah, but under grace? May it never be!" (Romans 6:15)
[Note: Paul's statement, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the Law, but under grace" (Romans 6:14), is one of the most misunderstood of the New Testament. Being "not under the Law" does not mean we can reject or disobey the Law. The idea is one of perspective. The Law is to be in us instead of over us. It means the Law is taught in us by the Spirit instead of at us. We are under grace, which is the power not to sin, or "transgress the Torah. " Instead of the Torah commanding us from without, it operates in us by the Spirit of Grace. For this reason Paul says, "How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" (Romans 6:2). And, John says, "Whoever is born of God does not keep committing sin . . . he cannot continue in sin because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother" (1 John 3:9,10).]
"And by Him (Messiah) all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Torah of Moses" (Acts 13 :39).
"Therefore by the deeds of the Torah no flesh will be justified in his sight" (Romans 3 :20).
"But if, while we seek to be justified by Messiah, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Messiah the minister of sin? May it never be!" (Galatians 2:17).
[Note: The inability of the Torah to justify a person does not negate the truth of the Torah. It is the Torah which demands we have a sacrifice for sin. Faith in the justification which comes through Messiah's sacrifice is itself obedience to the Torah. "You must be born again" is in essence a commandment.]
"Paul . . . sailed into Syria . . . having cut his hair in Cenchrea, for he had (completed) a vow" (Acts 18: 18) . See Numbers 6:5.
"Honour your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise" (Ephesians 6:2).
"For it is written in the Torah of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn" (1 Corinthians 9:9).
"But this I confess unto you . . . I worship the God of my fathers, committed to all things which are written in the Torah and in the prophets" (Acts 24:14).
"Messiah, our Passover, is sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast (of Passover), not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (1 Corinthians 5:7,8).
"But we know that the Torah is good, if a man use it lawfully. Knowing this, that the Torah is not made for a righteous man, but for those against the Torah and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane" (1 Timothy 1:8-10).
"Hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that says, 'I know him', and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him" (1 John 2:2-5). See 1 John 5:2,3.
"The dragon was angry . . . and went to make war with the remnant . . . which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Yeshua the Messiah" (Revelation 12: 17).
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Yeshua" (Rev. 14:12).
