2 Peter 2:21

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

If you love me, keep my commandments.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.