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Deuteronomy 4:1
Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
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Proverbs 2:1-5
My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,indeed, if you call out for discernment– raise your voice for understanding–if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
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Psalms 119:27
Help me to understand what your precepts mean! Then I can meditate on your marvelous teachings.
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Psalms 119:4
You demand that your precepts be carefully kept.
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Deuteronomy 4:6
So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say,“ Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people.”
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Deuteronomy 5:32-6:3
Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headedand that you may so revere the LORD your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you– you, your children, and your grandchildren– all your lives, to prolong your days.Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number– as the LORD, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Deuteronomy 29:10
You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God– the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,
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Philippians 2:15-16
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the worldby holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
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Acts 10:33
Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”
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Psalms 119:33-34
Teach me, O LORD, the lifestyle prescribed by your statutes, so that I might observe it continually.Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.
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Proverbs 13:22
A benevolent person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.
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Deuteronomy 29:15
but with whoever stands with us here today before the LORD our God as well as those not with us here today.
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Psalms 119:10-11
With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.
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Proverbs 3:1
My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
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Deuteronomy 4:26
I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.
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Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Isaiah 34:16
Carefully read the scroll of the LORD! Not one of these creatures will be missing, none will lack a mate. For the LORD has issued the decree, and his own spirit gathers them.
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Psalms 119:44
Then I will keep your law continually now and for all time.
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Acts 17:11
These Jews were more open- minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.
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Ezra 9:12
Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’
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Matthew 5:14-16
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.