Deuteronomy 8:1

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.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

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

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

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

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.

“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;

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

Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

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.

It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

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.

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;

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.

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.

and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after 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.

to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

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

that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today.” Then I answered, and said, “Amen, Yahweh.”

in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

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

I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’

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

You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.

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

Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’ ”

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—

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.

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.

You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

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

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

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

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

“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.

I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’

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

“ ‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’ ”

You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

“Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.

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;

What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”

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.

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

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

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

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

Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”

joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

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

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

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

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;

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.

and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.

“ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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.

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