Deuteronomy 27:1

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.

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

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;

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

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

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

“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.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

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.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

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, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

“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.

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

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

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

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

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

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.

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

Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

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.

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

You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you

They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

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.

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.

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!

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;

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

You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

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

Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;

the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;

You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.

These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.

Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

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

Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

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.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

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

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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.

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

His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

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

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him: