Deuteronomy 11:18

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

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.

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”

that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.”

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”

He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.