Matthew 1:24

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.”

You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.

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.

“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.

Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.

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.

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

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

He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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.

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

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.

The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

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.

Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.

Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

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

He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.

Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.

Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.

Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

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

That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

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?

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.

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.

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

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

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,

He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

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

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.

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

And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

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.

Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.