³¹ “Thus you shall keep my commandments and observe them: I am the Lord.^(A)

⁴⁰ Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”^(A)

⁴⁰ So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and you shall be holy to your God.^(A)

³⁷ You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them: I am the Lord.”

A Life Pleasing to God

4 Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.^{(A) 2} For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

⁴ My ordinances you shall observe, and my statutes you shall keep, following them: I am the Lord your God. ⁵ You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.^(A)