keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
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.”
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
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.
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