Proverbs 7:2

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.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

If you love me, keep my commandments.

“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.”

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

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

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.

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

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.

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;

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

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

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

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.”

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

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 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.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

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.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

“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.

He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

“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.

“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

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

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

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

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.