Deuteronomy 10:12

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

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.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

“You shall have no other gods before me.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”

For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.

But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.

They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,