Nehemiah 13:3

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.

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

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

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

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.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

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

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

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

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

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

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

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

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.

The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding—

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

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

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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.