⁶ For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following him but kept the commandments that the Lord had commanded Moses.^(A)

⁸ but hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.^(A)

²⁰ You shall fear the Lord your God; him you shall serve; to him you shall hold fast; and by his name you shall swear.^(A)

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep^[a] my commandments.^(A)

²³ When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast devotion,^(A)

³ For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,^(A)

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you.^(A)

¹³ Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”^(A)

²¹ They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”^(A)

⁴ which I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron smelter, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,^(A)