For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.
I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me!
With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
“Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
“And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
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