For he held fast to the Lord. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses.
but you shall cling to the Lord your God just as you have done to this day.
You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
that I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,
And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.
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