Proverbs 7:2
New Living Translation
2 Obey my commands and live!
Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes.[a]
Footnotes
- 7:2 Hebrew as the pupil of your eye.
Psalm 17:8
New Living Translation
8 Guard me as you would guard your own eyes.[a]
Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
Footnotes
- 17:8 Hebrew as the pupil of your eye.
Leviticus 18:5
New Living Translation
5 If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the Lord.
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1 John 2:3-4
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3 And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. 4 If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth.
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Proverbs 4:4
New Living Translation
4 My father taught me,
“Take my words to heart.
Follow my commands, and you will live.
1 John 5:1-3
New Living Translation
Faith in the Son of God
5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ[a] has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. 2 We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments. 3 Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.
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- 5:1 Or the Messiah.
John 15:14
New Living Translation
14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
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John 14:21
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21 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”
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John 12:49-50
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49 I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. 50 And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say.”
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Isaiah 55:3
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3 “Come to me with your ears wide open.
Listen, and you will find life.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.
Proverbs 4:13
New Living Translation
13 Take hold of my instructions; don’t let them go.
Guard them, for they are the key to life.
Revelation 22:14
New Living Translation
14 Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life.
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Zechariah 2:8
New Living Translation
8 After a period of glory, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies sent me[a] against the nations who plundered you. For he said, “Anyone who harms you harms my most precious possession.[b]
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Deuteronomy 32:10
New Living Translation
10 He found them in a desert land,
in an empty, howling wasteland.
He surrounded them and watched over them;
he guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.[a]
Footnotes
- 32:10 Hebrew as the pupil of his eye.
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