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Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today… Deuteronomy 4:40

Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40 law obedience blessing
My child, if your heart is wise,
my heart too will be glad.
Proverbs 23:15 wisdom heart joy

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!
2 Corinthians 13:5 faith salvation Jesus
Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to talk back, not to pilfer, but to show complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior.
Titus 2:9-10 slavery work
The human mind plans the way,
but the Lord directs the steps.
Proverbs 16:9 planning marriage dependence
You shall be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.
Leviticus 20:26 holiness life
But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.
James 1:22 obedience Word of God listening
Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.
Romans 5:7-8 sin salvation death
For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
Matthew 16:26 materialism life soul
If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.
James 1:26 speaking
Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 marriage relationships
Like a city breached, without walls,
is one who lacks self-control.
Proverbs 25:28 self-control desires
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 2:24 sin righteousness healing
The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
Proverbs 11:3 reliability honesty
So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.
Hebrews 4:9-10 sabbath rest work
Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives;
those who open wide their lips come to ruin.
Proverbs 13:3 speaking wisdom life
Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
Romans 1:25-28 idols sexuality desires
Therefore you are great, O Lord God; for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
2 Samuel 7:22 God worship
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.
Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Psalm 138:8 reliability God safety
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
Colossians 3:18-19 humility marriage relationships
May he grant you your heart's desire,
and fulfill all your plans.
Psalm 20:4 planning blessing heart
He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5 salvation Holy Spirit rebirth
Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
than kindred who are far away.
Proverbs 27:10 friendship family neighbor
And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”
Luke 12:15 money greed materialism
Those who keep the commandment will live;
those who are heedless of their ways will die.
Proverbs 19:16 law eternal life sin

And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.