Deuteronomy 4:40
4:40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth
today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the
Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.
Deuteronomy 5:1
The Opening Exhortation
5:1 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!
Deuteronomy 5:31--6:1
5:31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments,
statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.”
5:32 Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the
Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!
5:33 Walk just as he
has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long
in the land you are going to possess.
Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles
6:1 Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed
Deuteronomy 8:1
The Lord’s Provision in the Desert
8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors.
Deuteronomy 27:26
27:26 ‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Luke 1:6
1:6 They
were both righteous in the sight of God, following
all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.
Galatians 3:10-13
3:10 For all who
rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “
Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”
3:11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because
the righteous one will live by faith.
3:12 But the law is not based on faith,
but
the one who does the works of the law
will live by them.
3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming
a curse for us (because it is written, “
Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)