Ezekiel 20:19
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19 I the Lord am your God; follow my statutes, be careful to observe my ordinances,(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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Deuteronomy 5:32-6:8
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32 You must therefore be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn to the right or to the left.(A) 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.(B)
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.(C) 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.(D)
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.[a](E) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.(F) 6 Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. 7 Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.(G) 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem[b] on your forehead,(H)
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 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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Jeremiah 3:22-23
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22 Return, O faithless children,
I will heal your faithlessness.
“Here we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.(A)
23 Truly the hills are[a] a delusion,
a tumult on the mountains.
Truly in the Lord our God
is the salvation of Israel.(B)
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- 3.23 Gk Syr Vg: Heb Truly from the hills is
Psalm 105:45
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45 that they might keep his statutes
and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord!(A)
Psalm 81:9-10
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9 There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.(A)
10 I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.(B)
Deuteronomy 12:1
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Pagan Shrines to Be Destroyed
12 “These are the statutes and ordinances that you must diligently observe in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to occupy all the days that you live on the earth.(A)
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Titus 2:11-14
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11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,[a](A) 12 training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,(B) 13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior,[b] Jesus Christ.(C) 14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.(D)
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Psalm 19:7-11
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7 The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the decrees of the Lord are sure,
making wise the simple;(A)
8 the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is clear,
enlightening the eyes;(B)
9 the fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever;
the ordinances of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether.(C)
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
even much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey
and drippings of the honeycomb.(D)
11 Moreover, by them is your servant warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.(E)
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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Deuteronomy 10:1-12
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The Second Pair of Tablets
10 “At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Carve out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.(A) 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you smashed, and you shall put them in the ark.’(B) 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.(C) 4 Then he wrote on the tablets the same words as before, the ten commandments[a] that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly, and the Lord gave them to me.(D) 5 So I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made, and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.”(E)
6 (The Israelites journeyed from Beeroth-bene-jaakan[b] to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest.(F) 7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.(G) 8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.(H) 9 Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance with his kindred; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God promised him.)(I)
10 “I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to me. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.(J) 11 The Lord said to me, ‘Get up, go on your journey at the head of the people, that they may go in and occupy the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them.’
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,(K)
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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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Deuteronomy 7:4-6
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4 for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.(A) 5 But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles,[a] and burn their idols with fire.(B) 6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(C)
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Deuteronomy 5:6-7
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6 “ ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;(A) 7 you shall have no other gods before[a] me.
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Nehemiah 9:13-14
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13 You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,(A) 14 and you made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.(B)
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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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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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Exodus 20:2-3
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2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;(A) 3 you shall have no other gods before[a] me.(B)
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- 20.3 Or besides
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