Psalms 119:2

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.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

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

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

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.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

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—

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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

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

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

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

If you love me, keep my commandments.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

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.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

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.”

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

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

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.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

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

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

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.’ ”

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

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.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—

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.”

Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

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.”

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

I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.

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

You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

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?”

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.

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

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.

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

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

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

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

All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.

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

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

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,

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

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;

In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

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

Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

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

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.