- 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.
- Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
- So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
- Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
- Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
- If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
- God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
- 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.
- 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.
- Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.Next verse!With image