and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

“You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the Lord.

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,

but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments.

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?

Thus you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God.

I will establish his kingdom permanently, if he remains committed to obeying my commands and regulations, as you are doing this day.’

he taught me, and he said to me: “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant –

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

Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,

“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

“But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.

I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.

The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.”

But if you repent and obey my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’