Deuteronomy 12:8
You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,
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- Judg 17:6 : 6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.
- Judg 21:25 : 25 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.
- Prov 21:2 : 2 All of a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates his thoughts.
- Amos 5:25 : 25 You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.
- Acts 7:42 : 42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?
- Num 15:39 : 39 You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.
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6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.
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9 for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.
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2 All of a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates his thoughts.
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18 Thus you must obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving you today and doing what is right before him.
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7 Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.
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18 Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
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32 Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!
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25 You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.
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32 Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.
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16 These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.
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18 Provision for Justice You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the LORD your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.
19 You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.
20 You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.
11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.
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28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
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17 They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.
18 Instructions at Kadesh Barnea So I instructed you at that time regarding everything you should do.
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4 You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.
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2 “You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,
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8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?
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3 You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.
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6 He told the judges,“Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the LORD, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.
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12 But they just keep saying,‘We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”
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57 Clear the Debts“And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
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9 The Present Covenant Setting“Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.
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12 Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
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61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the LORD our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing.”
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12 There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.
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11 Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.
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11 So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.
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8 The Abundance of the Land of Promise Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,
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14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.
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12 And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me.
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18 You may do whatever seems appropriate to you and your colleagues with the rest of the silver and the gold, in keeping with the will of your God.
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32 Idolatry and False Prophets(13:1) You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!
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13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,
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30 After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say,“How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”
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1 The Lord’s Provision in the Desert You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors.
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15 Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.
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15 Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.
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35 You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.
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2 All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates the motives.
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20 Yet you say,‘The behavior of the Lord is not right.’ House of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his behavior.”
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16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
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25 We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the LORD our God, just as he demands.”
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8 But you must be loyal to the LORD your God, as you have been to this very day.
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11 Exhortation to Remember That Blessing Comes from God Be sure you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.
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1 The Central Sanctuary These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.