Deuteronomy 6:8

“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.

“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.

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

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

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.

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.

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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,

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

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;

and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

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

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.

“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.

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

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

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—

Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

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

He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.

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

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

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;

You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

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.