He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many.

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.

We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.

Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.

The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.

Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.

I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.

But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.

Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!

Observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go.

Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord.

In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.

Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.

If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless, but it is the ruin of those who do evil.

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!

Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.

The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

If you love me, keep my commands.

So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.