John 15:14

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.

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

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

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

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

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

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

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

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

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.

He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,

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;

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

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

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

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.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

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

Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

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.

Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;

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

Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

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.

“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.

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.” They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

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

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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

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

Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.

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

So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

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

You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you

She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”

She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”

For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’ ”

So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.

For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

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

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

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;

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

Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

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

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.

Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.

They came in and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your voice and didn’t walk in your law. They have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do. Therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them.

I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.

His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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.”

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.