Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.

Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

For I am aware of all his regulations, and I do not reject his rules.

For I am aware of all his regulations, and I do not reject his rules.

God says this to the evildoer: “How can you declare my commands, and talk about my covenant?

A well-written song by Asaph. Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!

He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the Lord!

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

Can spoils be taken from a warrior, or captives be rescued from a conqueror?

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.

There were no restrictions on the drinking, for the king had instructed all of his supervisors that they should do as everyone so desired.

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

“But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby, “Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?”

many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so he can teach us his requirements, and we can follow his standards.” For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem.