I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.
I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 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.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment.
Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
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