Deuteronomy 5:29
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29 (A)Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and (B)always keep all My commandments, (C)that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
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Isaiah 48:18
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18 (A)Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
(B)Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Ezekiel 33:31-32
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31 So (A)they come to you as people do, they (B)sit before you as My people, and they (C)hear your words, but they do not do them; (D)for with their mouth they show much love, but (E)their hearts pursue their own gain. 32 Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do (F)not do them.
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Deuteronomy 11:1
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Love and Obedience Rewarded
11 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
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Luke 19:42
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42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this (A)your day, the things that (B)make for your (C)peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
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Matthew 23:37
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Deuteronomy 4:40
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40 (A)You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that [a]it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may [b]prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
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- Deuteronomy 4:40 you may prosper
- Deuteronomy 4:40 live long
Deuteronomy 5:16
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16 (A)‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, (B)that your days may be long, and that it may be well with (C)you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 32:29-30
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29 (A)Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their (B)latter end!
30 How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock (C)had sold them,
And the Lord had surrendered them?
Psalm 119:1-5
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Meditations on the Excellencies of the Word of God
א ALEPH
119 Blessed are the [a]undefiled in the way,
(A)Who walk in the law of the Lord!
2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the (B)whole heart!
3 (C)They also do no iniquity;
They walk in His ways.
4 You have commanded us
To keep Your precepts diligently.
5 Oh, that my ways were directed
To keep Your statutes!
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- Psalm 119:1 blameless
Psalm 81:13-15
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13 “Oh,(A) that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
14 I would soon subdue their enemies,
And turn My hand against their adversaries.
15 (B)The haters of the Lord would pretend submission to Him,
But their [a]fate would endure forever.
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- Psalm 81:15 Lit. time
Revelation 22:14
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14 (A)Blessed are those who [a]do His commandments, that they may have the right (B)to the tree of life, (C)and may enter through the gates into the city.
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- Revelation 22:14 NU wash their robes,
James 1:25
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25 But (A)he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, (B)this one will be blessed in what he does.
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