Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die.
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies),
We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully and had been very unfaithful to the Lord.
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.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
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