Deuteronomy 25:15
Hebrew Text— Deuteronomy 25:15You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
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.’
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
“Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
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.
Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
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.
I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”
that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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;
The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
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.
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
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!
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’
Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;’
Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”
‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”
You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”
“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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.
You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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.
If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.