⁸ Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.

Moses Commands Obedience

4 “Now, O Israel, listen to ^(A)the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and ^[a]possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you.

The Value of Wisdom

¹² Now therefore, ^(A)do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons; and ^(B)never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and ^(C)leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.’

³² “Therefore you shall ^[a]be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; ^(A)you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. ³³ You shall walk in ^(B)all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live ^(C)and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

The Greatest Commandment

6 “Now this is ^(D)the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, ^2 (E)that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, ^(F)and that your days may be prolonged. ³ Therefore hear, O Israel, and ^[b]be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may ^(G)multiply greatly ^(H)as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—^(I)‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

The Race of Faith

12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, ^(A)let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and ^(B)let us run ^(C)with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus, the ^[a]author and ^[b]finisher of our faith, ^(D)who for the joy that was set before Him ^(E)endured the cross, despising the shame, and ^(F)has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁵ that you may become blameless and ^[a]harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as ^(A)lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the word of life, so that ^(B)I may rejoice in the day of Christ that ^(C)I have not run in vain or labored in ^(D)vain.