And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
the Lord protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.
“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers.
“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
who has kept our soul among the living and has not let our feet slip.
If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today.
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