I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!

I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.

Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else: for my case is against you priests!

And if someone wants to sue you and to take your tunic, give him your coat also.

Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he will not be crowned as the winner unless he competes according to the rules.

For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

“You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.

Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.

So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people.”