John 13:17

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

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.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

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.”

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

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

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

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

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

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

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

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

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

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

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

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

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

“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.

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;

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

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;

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

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

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

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

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

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

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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.”

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

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

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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.

Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

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

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

David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

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

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

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

If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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

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

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

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

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

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

Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.

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.