Psalms 119:88

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

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 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.

“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

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

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

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

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

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.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

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

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.

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

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

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

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

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,

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

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

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.

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

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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;

Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

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

For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

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

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

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

Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

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

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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