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)
John 14:21-24
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21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”(A) 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.(B) 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.(C)
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Proverbs 4:5
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5 Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget nor turn away
from the words of my mouth.(A)
Psalm 119:16
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16 I will delight in your statutes;
I will not forget your word.(A)
Proverbs 1:8
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Warnings against Evil Companions
8 Hear, my child, your father’s instruction,
and do not reject your mother’s teaching,(A)
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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Hosea 4:6
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6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you from being a priest to me;
and since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.(A)
Jeremiah 31:33
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33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.(A)
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Psalm 119:93
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93 I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have given me life.(A)
Psalm 119:47-48
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47 I find my delight in your commandments
because I love them.
48 I revere your commandments, which I love,
and I will meditate on your statutes.(A)
Psalm 119:34
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34 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
and observe it with my whole heart.(A)
Psalm 119:11
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11 I treasure your word in my heart,
so that I may not sin against you.(A)
Deuteronomy 8:1
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A Warning Not to Forget God in Prosperity
8 “The entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:9
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9 “But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children(A)—
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Psalm 119:176
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176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek out your servant,
for I do not forget your commandments.(A)
Psalm 119:153
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153 Look on my misery and rescue me,
for I do not forget your law.(A)
Deuteronomy 30:16-20
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16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God[a] that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away and you do not hear but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today that you shall certainly perish; you shall not live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.(A) 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,(B) 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him, for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”(C)
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- 30.16 Gk: Heb lacks If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God
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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Isaiah 51:17
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17 Rouse yourself, rouse yourself!
Stand up, O Jerusalem,
you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord
the cup of his wrath,
who have drunk to the dregs
the cup of staggering.(A)
Proverbs 31:5
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5 lest they drink and forget what has been decreed
and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
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