Leviticus 20:22

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

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.

Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’ ”

Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’ ”

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.

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 will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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;

Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

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.

Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

“ ‘ “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.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

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;

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”

Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.

Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let the your eyes rest.

We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

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

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

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

I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:

that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

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.”

that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”

You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?” ’

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

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.