The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer; whatever I say will be fulfilled, declares the Sovereign Lord.’

One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

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.

And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”

I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.

Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

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

And every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

“If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.”

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine.

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.

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.

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him.

But I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him.

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

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.

But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

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.’

So that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed.

My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.”

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.

If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.

You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.

The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I am the Lord your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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.

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.

For he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.

Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.