Deuteronomy 16:20
Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
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- Deut 4:1 : 1 And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
- Deut 25:13-16 : 13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small; 14 Or in your house different measures, a great and a small. 15 But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
- Ezek 18:5 : 5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,
- Ezek 18:9 : 9 And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.
- Mic 6:8 : 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
- Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
- Phil 4:8 : 8 For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
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18You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
19You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
- Deut 6:17-182 verses79%
17Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;
18And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
- Deut 25:15-162 verses79%
15But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
16For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
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15Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.
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14Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
- Lev 19:35-373 verses76%
35Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.
36Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
37You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.
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16In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.
- Deut 17:9-113 verses75%
9And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:
10And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:
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1And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
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17In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
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18So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.
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6Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.
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5But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,
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1Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
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5I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.
- Deut 5:32-332 verses74%
32Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.
33Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.
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6And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.
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25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
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4But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.
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1Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.
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