2 Samuel 22:23
Hebrew Text— 2 Samuel 22:23For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
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But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
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.
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
“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.
“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
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.
After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.
Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.
You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever.”
the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.