Deuteronomy 5:29

5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey ¹  all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 5:32--6:3

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 ²  has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long ³  in the land you are going to possess.

Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles

6:1 Now these are the commandments, ⁴  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 ⁵  6:2 and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments ⁶  that I am giving ⁷  you – you, your children, and your grandchildren – all your lives, to prolong your days. 6:3 Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number ⁸  – as the Lord, God of your ancestors, ⁹  said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.

Matthew 7:21

Judgment of Pretenders

7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ ¹⁰  will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 7:24

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ¹¹  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ¹²  a wise man ¹³  who built his house on rock.

Matthew 28:20

28:20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, ¹⁴  I am with you ¹⁵  always, to the end of the age.” ¹⁶ 

Luke 11:28

11:28 But he replied, ¹⁷  “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey ¹⁸  it!”

John 13:17

13:17 If you understand ¹⁹  these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

John 14:21

14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys ²⁰  them is the one who loves me. ²¹  The one ²²  who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal ²³  myself to him.”

James 1:22-25

1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ²⁴  who gazes at his own face ²⁵  in a mirror. 1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets ²⁶  what sort of person he was. 1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, ²⁷  and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he ²⁸  will be blessed in what he does. ²⁹ 

Revelation 22:14

22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access ³⁰  to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.

[5:29]  ¹ tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[5:33]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[5:33]  ³ tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”

[6:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.

[6:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”

[6:2]  ⁶ tn Here the terms are not the usual חֻקִּים (khuqqim) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim; as in v. 1) but חֻקֹּת (khuqqot, “statutes”) and מִצְוֹת (mitsot, “commandments”). It is clear that these terms are used interchangeably and that their technical precision ought not be overly stressed.

[6:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “commanding.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.

[6:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “may multiply greatly” (so NASB, NRSV); the words “in number” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[6:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 18, 23).

[7:21]  ¹⁰ sn The double use of the vocative is normally used in situations of high emotion or emphasis. Even an emphatic confession without action means little.

[7:24]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[7:24]  ¹² tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

[7:24]  ¹³ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.

[28:20]  ¹⁴ tn The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has been translated here as “remember” (BDAG 468 s.v. 1.c).

[28:20]  ¹⁵ sn I am with you. Matthew’s Gospel begins with the prophecy that the Savior’s name would be “Emmanuel, that is, ‘God with us,’” (1:23, in which the author has linked Isa 7:14 and 8:8, 10 together) and it ends with Jesus’ promise to be with his disciples forever. The Gospel of Matthew thus forms an inclusio about Jesus in his relationship to his people that suggests his deity.

[28:20]  ¹⁶ tc Most mss (A^c Θ Ë¹³ Ï it sy) have ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”) at the end of v. 20. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, no good reason exists for the omission of the particle in significant and early witnesses such as א A* B D W ˹ 33 al lat sa.

[11:28]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “said.”

[11:28]  ¹⁸ sn This is another reference to hearing and doing the word of God, which here describes Jesus’ teaching; see Luke 8:21.

[13:17]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “If you know.”

[14:21]  ²⁰ tn Or “keeps.”

[14:21]  ²¹ tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”

[14:21]  ²² tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.

[14:21]  ²³ tn Or “will disclose.”

[1:23]  ²⁴ tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”

[1:23]  ²⁵ tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

[1:24]  ²⁶ tn Grk “and he has gone out and immediately has forgotten.”

[1:25]  ²⁷ tn Grk “continues.”

[1:25]  ²⁸ tn Grk “this one.”

[1:25]  ²⁹ tn Grk “in his doing.”

[22:14]  ³⁰ tn Grk “so that there will be to them authority over the tree of life.”