Psalms 119:10

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

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

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.

They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

“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, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

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.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

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

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

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

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

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,

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.