Choose Whom You Will Serve

^14 (A)“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. ^(B)Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

^24 (A)Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider ^(B)what great things he has done for you.

Circumcise Your Heart

¹² “And now, Israel, ^(A)what does the Lord your God require of you, but ^(B)to fear the Lord your God, ^(C)to walk in all his ways, ^(D)to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

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²³ He said, “Then ^(A)put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

² So Jacob said to his ^(A)household and to all who were with him, “Put away ^(B)the foreign gods that are among you and ^(C)purify yourselves and change your garments.

Paul's Change of Plans

¹² For our boast is this, ^(A)the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity^[a] and ^(B)godly sincerity, ^(C)not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

¹⁸ “And I said to ^(A)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk ^(B)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, ^(C)nor defile yourselves with their idols.

¹¹ which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with ^(A)their uncleanness.