Leviticus 26:3
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3 “If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully,(A)
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Isaiah 1:19
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19 If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land,(A)
Deuteronomy 11:13-15
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13 “If you will only heed his every commandment[a] that I am commanding you today—loving the Lord your God and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul(A)— 14 then he[b] will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil,(B) 15 and he[c] will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat your fill.(C)
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Deuteronomy 28:1-14
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Blessings for Obedience
28 “If you will only obey the Lord your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth;(A) 2 all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the Lord your God:
3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.(B)
4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, both the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.(C)
5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.(D) 8 The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you undertake; he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.(E) 10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.(F) 11 The Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give you.(G) 12 The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.(H) 13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be only at the top and not at the bottom—if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today by diligently observing them, 14 and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you today, either to the right or to the left, following other gods to serve them.(I)
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Leviticus 18:4-5
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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)
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Revelation 22:14
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14 Blessed are those who wash their robes,[a] so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.
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- 22.14 Other ancient authorities read do his commandments
Romans 2:7-10
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7 to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life, 8 while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.(A) 9 There will be affliction and distress for everyone who does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek,(B) 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, both the Jew first and the Greek.
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Matthew 7:24-25
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Hearers and Doers
24 “Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.(A) 25 The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on rock.
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Isaiah 48:18-19
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18 O that you had paid attention to my commandments!
Then your prosperity would have been like a river
and your success like the waves of the sea;(A)
19 your offspring would have been like the sand
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.(B)
Psalm 81:12-16
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12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.(A)
13 O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!(B)
14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.(C)
15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,
and their doom would last forever.
16 I would feed you[a] with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”(D)
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- 81.16 Cn: Heb he would feed him
Judges 2:1-2
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Israel’s Disobedience
2 Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I had promised to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.(A) 2 For your part, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my command. See what you have done!(B)
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Joshua 23:14-15
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14 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one thing has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you; all have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.(A) 15 But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.(B)
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Deuteronomy 7:12
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Blessings for Obedience
12 “If you heed these ordinances by diligently observing them, the Lord your God will maintain with you the covenant loyalty that he swore to your ancestors;(A)
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