“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers.
I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess. “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.
And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
“So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord.
And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.”
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.
that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the Lord!
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
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.
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