Deuteronomy 26:17
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17 Today you have obtained the Lord’s agreement: to be your God; and for you to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and to obey him.
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Isaiah 12:2
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2 Surely God is my salvation;
I will trust and will not be afraid,
for the Lord[a] is my strength and my might;
he has become my salvation.”(A)
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- 12.2 Q ms Heb mss Gk Syr Vg Tg: MT for Yah, the Lord
Exodus 24:7
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7 Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”(A)
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1 Corinthians 6:19-20
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19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple[a] of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?(A) 20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.(B)
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- 6.19 Or sanctuary
2 Corinthians 8:5
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5 and not as we expected. Instead, they gave themselves first to the Lord and, by the will of God, to us,
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Romans 6:13
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13 No longer present your members to sin as instruments[a] of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments[b] of righteousness.(A)
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Acts 27:23
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23 For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,(A)
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Isaiah 44:5
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5 This one will say, “I am the Lord’s”;
another will be called by the name of Jacob;
yet another will write on the hand, “The Lord’s,”
and adopt the name of Israel.(A)
Joshua 22:5
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5 Take good care to observe the commandment and instruction that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, and to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 30:16
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16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God[a] that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
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- 30.16 Gk: Heb lacks If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God
Deuteronomy 15:5
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5 if only you will obey the Lord your God by diligently observing this entire commandment that I command you today.(A)
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Deuteronomy 13:18
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18 if you obey the voice of the Lord your God by keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.(A)
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Deuteronomy 5:2-3
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2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.(A) 3 Not with our ancestors did the Lord make this covenant but with us, who are all of us here alive today.
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Exodus 20:19
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19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”(A)
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Zechariah 13:9
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9 And I will put this third into the fire,
refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”(A)
Psalm 147:19-20
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19 He declares his word to Jacob,
his statutes and ordinances to Israel.(A)
20 He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!(B)
2 Chronicles 34:31
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31 The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.(A)
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1 Kings 2:3-4
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3 and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.(A) 4 Then the Lord will establish his word that he spoke concerning me: ‘If your heirs take heed to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a successor on the throne of Israel.’(B)
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Deuteronomy 13:4-5
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4 The Lord your God you shall follow, him alone you shall fear, his commandments you shall keep, his voice you shall obey, him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast.(A) 5 But those prophets or those who divine by dreams shall be put to death for having spoken treason against the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to turn you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.(B)
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Exodus 15:2
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2 The Lord is my strength and my might,[a]
and he has become my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him;
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.(A)
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- 15.2 Or song
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
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The Essence of the Law
12 “So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,(A) 13 and to keep the commandments of the Lord and his decrees that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being.
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