Deuteronomy 4:1
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Moses Commands Obedience
4 “So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.(A)
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Romans 10:5
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Salvation Is for All
5 Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 8:1
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A Warning Not to Forget God in Prosperity
8 “The entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.(A)
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Ezekiel 20:11
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11 I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.(A)
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Leviticus 18:5
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5 You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.(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 5:33-6:2
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33 You must follow exactly the path that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land that you are to possess.(A)
The Great Commandment
6 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, 2 so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long.(B)
Deuteronomy 5:1
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The Ten Commandments
5 Moses convened all Israel and said to them:
“Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall learn them and observe them diligently.
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Leviticus 22:31
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31 “Thus you shall keep my commandments and observe them: I am the Lord.(A)
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Leviticus 19:37
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37 You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them: I am the Lord.”
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Matthew 28:20
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20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”[a]
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- 28.20 Other ancient authorities add Amen
Ezekiel 37:24
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24 “My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.(A)
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Ezekiel 36:27
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27 I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.(A)
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Ezekiel 20:21
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21 But the children rebelled against me; they did not follow my statutes and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths.
Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.(A)
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Ezekiel 11:20
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20 so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.(A)
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Psalm 119:4
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4 You have commanded your precepts
to be kept diligently.
Psalm 105:45
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45 that they might keep his statutes
and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord!(A)
Deuteronomy 30:19
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19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,(A)
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Deuteronomy 16:20
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20 Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, so that you may live and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 11:32
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32 you must diligently observe all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
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Deuteronomy 11:1
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Rewards for Obedience
11 “You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.(A)
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