Deuteronomy 10:13

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

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.

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

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

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

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

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.

If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them.

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

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.”

The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

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!

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,

David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

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

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

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

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after 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.

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

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.

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”