Deuteronomy 4:8

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.

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

God spoke all these words, saying,

Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

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 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.

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

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

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

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”

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.

But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

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.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

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.

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.

You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.

but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’

In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:

Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

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 keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

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

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

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

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,