Ezra 7:10

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

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.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

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

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

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

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;

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

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

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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

You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.

Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law.

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

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

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

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

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

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

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.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

“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.

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

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh.

Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

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.”

He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

When they brought out the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses.

Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

My heart is steadfast, God. My heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

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.