Numbers 15:39
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39 You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them and not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.(A)
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Psalm 106:39
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39 Thus they became unclean by their acts
and prostituted themselves in their doings.(A)
Psalm 73:27
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27 Indeed, those who are far from you will perish;
you put an end to those who are false to you.(A)
Ezekiel 6:9
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9 Your survivors shall remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I was crushed by their wanton heart that turned away from me and their wanton eyes that turned after their idols. Then they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.(A)
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Proverbs 28:26
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26 Those who trust in their own wits are fools,
but those who walk in wisdom come through safely.
James 4:4
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4 Adulterers![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(A)
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- 4.4 Gk Adulterous women; other ancient authorities read Adulterous men and women
Ecclesiastes 11:9
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9 Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.(A)
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Proverbs 3:1
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Admonition to Trust and Honor God
3 My child, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,(A)
Job 31:7
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7 if my step has turned aside from the way,
and my heart has followed my eyes,
and if any spot has clung to my hands,(A)
Deuteronomy 29:19
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19 All who hear the words of this oath and bless themselves, thinking in their hearts, ‘We are safe even though we go our own stubborn ways’ (thus sweeping away the moist with the dry)[a]—
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- 29.19 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Hosea 2:2
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Israel’s Infidelity, Punishment, and Redemption
2 Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away her prostitution from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts,(A)
Jeremiah 9:14
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14 but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.(A)
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Deuteronomy 11:28-32
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28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God but turn from the way that I am commanding you today, to follow other gods that you have not known.(A)
29 “When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that you are entering to occupy, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.(B) 30 As you know, they are beyond the Jordan, some distance to the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak[a] of Moreh.(C)
31 “When you cross the Jordan to go in to occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you and when you occupy it and live in it,(D) 32 you must diligently observe all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
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- 11.30 Gk Syr: Heb oaks or terebinths
Deuteronomy 11:18-21
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18 “You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and fix them as an emblem on your forehead.(A) 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise up.(B) 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,(C) 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
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Deuteronomy 6:12
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12 take care that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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Deuteronomy 6:6-9
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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.(A) 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem[a] on your forehead,(B) 9 and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.(C)
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- 6.8 Or as a frontlet
Deuteronomy 4:23
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23 So be careful, lest you forget the covenant that the Lord your God made with you and make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.(A)
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Exodus 34:15-16
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15 You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice,(A) 16 and you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.(B)
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Exodus 13:9
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9 It shall serve for you as a sign on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead, so that the teaching of the Lord may be on your lips, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.(A)
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