Verse 2

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!
  • 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.
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 The LORD found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 he taught me, and he said to me:“Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you– for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments. 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
  • 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”
  • John 14:21 : 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.