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The Privileges of the Covenant Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 8:1 : 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.
  • Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.”
  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the LORD.
  • Lev 19:37 : 37 You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. I am the LORD.
  • Lev 20:8 : 8 You must be sure to obey my statutes. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
  • Lev 22:31 : 31 “You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the LORD.
  • Deut 4:8 : 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?
  • Deut 4:45 : 45 These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,
  • Deut 5:1 : 1 The Opening Exhortation Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them:“Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!
  • Deut 5:33-6:2 : 33 Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess. 1 Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed 2 and that you may so revere the LORD your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you– you, your children, and your grandchildren– all your lives, to prolong your days.
  • Deut 11:1 : 1 Reiteration of the Call to Obedience You must love the LORD your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.
  • Deut 11:32 : 32 Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.
  • Deut 16:20 : 20 You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Deut 30:16 : 16 What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.
  • Deut 30:19 : 19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!
  • Ps 105:45 : 45 so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the LORD!
  • Ps 119:4 : 4 You demand that your precepts be carefully kept.
  • Ezek 11:20 : 20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
  • Ezek 20:21 : 21 “‘But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out(the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.
  • Ezek 37:24 : 24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.