^31 (A)“Therefore you shall keep My commandments, and perform them: I am the Lord.

^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.”

⁴⁰ and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be ^(A)holy for your God.

^37 (A)‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the Lord.’ ”

Plea for Purity

4 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus ^(A)that you should abound more and more, ^(B)just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; ² for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

^4 (A)You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the Lord your God. ⁵ You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.