Deuteronomy 16:20

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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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  • 82%

    18 You 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.

    19 You 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 6:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

    18 And 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,

  • 79%

    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.

  • 15 Do 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.

  • 1 These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

  • 14 Your 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 19:35-37
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    35 Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

    36 Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

    37 You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

  • 16 In 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 17:9-11
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    75%

    9 And 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:

    10 And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

    11 Acting in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to one side or the other from the word they have given you.

  • 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.

  • 17 In 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.

  • 18 So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

  • 6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • 5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

  • 18 So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • 1 Take 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.

  • 5 I 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 5:32-33
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    32 Take 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.

    33 Go 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.

  • 20 In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  • 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.

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
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    6 And 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.

    7 So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

  • 25 Do 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.

  • Lev 18:4-5
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    4 But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

    5 So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

  • 17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • 1 Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

  • 1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

  • 10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • 2 Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

  • 32 And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

  • 11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

  • 13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

  • 1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

  • 5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

  • Deut 12:8-9
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    72%

    8 You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

    9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • 16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

  • 16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

  • 21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

  • 3 And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

  • 3 You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.