Best Books on The Law of God
The law of God, summarized in the Ten Commandments, reveals God's holy character and his righteous standard for human life. Reformed theology teaches a threefold use of the law, to restrain sin in society, to expose sin and drive sinners to Christ, and to guide the Christian in grateful obedience, while insisting the law can never justify a sinner. Reformed and Puritan writers have long treasured the moral law as a gift, not a burden, for those united to Christ by faith.
Start Here
basic
The Ten Commandments: What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them
Top pickKevin DeYoung · 2018
Clear, warm walk through each commandment and its abiding relevance today.
Keeping the Ten Commandments
J.I. Packer · 2007
Brief, readable exposition of the commandments as God's blueprint for the good life.
How Does God's Law Apply to Me?
R.C. Sproul · 2019
Short booklet on how the believer relates to the moral law after conversion.
The Law of Perfect Freedom: Relating to God and Others through the Ten Commandments
Michael Horton · 1994
Accessible chapter-by-chapter walk through the Ten Commandments and their application.
Go Deeper
intermediate
God's Righteous Kingdom
Top pickWalter Chantry · 1980
Examines how the law functions in evangelism and Christian living without becoming legalism.
The Law and the Gospel
Ernest C. Reisinger · 2024
Pastoral study of how law and gospel relate and why preaching needs both.
40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law
Thomas Schreiner · 2020
Question-and-answer format working through the church's relationship to Old Testament law.
The Ten Commandments
Thomas Watson · 1692
Puritan classic expounding the meaning and abiding force of each commandment.
For Study
advanced
From the Finger of God: The Biblical and Theological Basis for the Threefold Division of the Law
Top pickPhilip S. Ross · 2010
Rigorous defense of the classic moral, civil, and ceremonial division of biblical law.
The Law Is Not of Faith: Essays on Works and Grace in the Mosaic Covenant
Bryan D. Estelle, J.V. Fesko, David VanDrunen (eds.) · 2009
Scholarly essays from Westminster faculty on the Mosaic covenant's relation to law and grace.
The Law and Its Fulfillment: A Pauline Theology of Law
Thomas Schreiner · 1993
Detailed academic study reevaluating Paul's theology of the Mosaic law.
Theonomy in Christian Ethics
Greg L. Bahnsen · 1977
Influential, contested case for the abiding validity of Old Testament civil law, best read with its critics.
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