all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations –

Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!

We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands.”

Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

Then if you and your descendants turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,

You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.

The Lord was furious with Israel. He said, “This nation has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. Your servant will do as you say.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.

You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.

They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and his son Solomon.

Esther was still not divulging her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her. Esther continued to do whatever Mordecai said, just as she had done when he was raising her.

At the sound of the trumpet, it says, ‘Aha!’ And from a distance it catches the scent of battle, the thunderous shouting of commanders, and the battle cries.

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

“‘If the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter is not noticed by the assembly, and they violate one of the Lord’s commandments, which must not be violated, so they become guilty,