⁶ He remained faithful to the Lord in everything, and he carefully obeyed all the commands the Lord had given Moses.

⁸ Rather, cling tightly to the Lord your God as you have done until now.

²⁰ You must fear the Lord your God and worship him and cling to him. Your oaths must be in his name alone.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, obey^[a] my commandments.

²³ When he arrived and saw this evidence of God’s blessing, he was filled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord.

³ Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command.

¹³ Again and again the Lord had sent his prophets and seers to warn both Israel and Judah: “Turn from all your evil ways. Obey my commands and decrees—the entire law that I commanded your ancestors to obey, and that I gave you through my servants the prophets.”

²¹ Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”

⁴ For I said to your ancestors when I brought them out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt, “If you obey me and do whatever I command you, then you will be my people, and I will be your God.”