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Deuteronomy 6:25
King James Version
25 And it shall be our righteousness,
if we observe to do all these commandments
before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
I love GOD's commands.
A true born again always does.
Through GOD's commands, we know what pleases Him.
Through His commands, we know how to worship Him.
Through His commands, we know how to serve others.
Through His commands, we know how to live holy lives.
What should our attitude be towards GOD's commandments?
A born again looks to Scripture, and here's what it says.
What JESUS said:
Matthew 5:48
King James Version
48 Be ye therefore perfect,
even as your Father which is in heaven
is perfect.
John 14:15
King James Version
15 If ye love me,
keep my commandments.
John 15:4-7
King James Version
4 Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine;
no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches:
He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me,
he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered;
and men gather them, and cast them into the fire,
and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you.
John 15:8
King James Version
8 Herein is my Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit;
so shall ye be my disciples.
John 15:9-11
King James Version
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:
continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments,
ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments,
and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you,
that my joy might remain in you,
and that your joy might be full.
What GOD said, through His prophets and apostles:
Deuteronomy 4:2
King James Version
2 Ye shall not add unto the word
which I command you,
neither shall ye diminish ought from it,
that ye may keep the commandments
of the Lord your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy 4:9
King James Version
9 Only take heed to thyself,
and keep thy soul diligently,
lest thou forget the things
which thine eyes have seen,
and lest they depart from thy heart
all the days of thy life:
but teach them thy sons,
and thy sons' sons;
Deuteronomy 4:12-15
King James Version
12 And the Lord spake unto you
out of the midst of the fire:
ye heard the voice of the words,
but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
13 And he declared unto you his covenant,
which he commanded you to perform,
even ten commandments;
and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 And the Lord commanded me at that time
to teach you statutes and judgments,
that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go over to possess it.
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves;
for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day
that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb
out of the midst of the fire:
Deuteronomy 4:39-40
King James Version
39 Know therefore this day,
and consider it in thine heart,
that the Lord he is God in heaven above,
and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes,
and his commandments,
which I command thee this day,
that it may go well with thee,
and with thy children after thee,
and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth,
which the Lord thy God giveth thee,
for ever.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
King James Version
4 Hear, O Israel:
The Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul,
and with all thy might.
6 And these words,
which I command thee this day,
shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down,
and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign
upon thine hand,
and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them
upon the posts of thy house,
and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
King James Version
12 And now, Israel,
what doth the Lord thy God require of thee,
but to fear the Lord thy God,
to walk in all his ways,
and to love him,
and to serve the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the Lord,
and his statutes,
which I command thee this day
for thy good?
Deuteronomy 10:14-17
King James Version
14 Behold,
the heaven and the heaven of heavens
is the Lord's thy God,
the earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers
to love them,
and he chose their seed after them,
even you above all people, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart,
and be no more stiffnecked.
17 For the Lord your God is God of gods,
and Lord of lords,
a great God,
a mighty, and a terrible,
which regardeth not persons,
nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy 10:20
King James Version
20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God;
him shalt thou serve,
and to him shalt thou cleave,
and swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 28:1-2
King James Version
28 And it shall come to pass,
if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the Lord thy God,
to observe and to do all his commandments
which I command thee this day,
that the Lord thy God will set thee on high
above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee,
and overtake thee,
if thou shalt hearken
unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 30:15-16
King James Version
15 See,
I have set before thee this day life and good,
and death and evil;
16 In that I command thee this day
to love the Lord thy God,
to walk in his ways,
and to keep his commandments
and his statutes and his judgments,
that thou mayest live and multiply:
and the Lord thy God shall bless thee
in the land whither thou goest
to possess it.
Joshua 1:6-7
King James Version
6 Be strong and of a good courage:
for unto this people shalt thou divide
for an inheritance the land,
which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous,
that thou mayest observe to do
according to all the law,
which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from it to the right hand or to the left,
that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.
Joshua 1:8
King James Version
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth;
but thou shalt meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do
according to all that is written therein:
for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous,
and then thou shalt have good success.
Joshua 1:9
King James Version
9 Have not I commanded thee?
Be strong and of a good courage;
be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:
for the Lord thy God is with thee
whithersoever thou goest.
Psalm 1:1-3
King James Version
1 Blessed is the man that walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted
by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither;
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Psalm 19:7-11
King James Version
7 The law of the Lord is perfect,
converting the soul:
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart:
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring for ever:
the judgments of the Lord
are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned:
and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Psalm 42:8
King James Version
8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness
in the day time,
and in the night his song shall be with me,
and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalm 119:60-62
King James Version
60 I made haste,
and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me:
but I have not forgotten thy law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee
because of thy righteous judgments.
Proverbs 6:20-24
King James Version
20 My son, keep thy father's commandment,
and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart,
and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee;
when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee;
and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 For the commandment is a lamp;
and the law is light;
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
24 To keep thee from the evil woman,
from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 19:16
King James Version
16 He that keepeth the commandment
keepeth his own soul;
but he that despiseth his ways
shall die.
Acts 13:46-49
King James Version
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold,
and said,
It was necessary that the word of God
should first have been spoken to you:
but seeing ye put it from you,
and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life,
lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
47 For so hath the Lord commanded us,
saying,
I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles,
that thou shouldest be for salvation
unto the ends of the earth.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this,
they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord:
and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was published
throughout all the region.
Acts 17:30-31
King James Version
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at;
but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day,
in the which he will judge the world in righteousness
by that man whom he hath ordained;
whereof he hath given assurance unto all men,
in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Romans 13:1-3
King James Version
13 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.
For there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power,
resisteth the ordinance of God:
and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works,
but to the evil.
Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?
do that which is good,
and thou shalt have praise of the same:
Romans 13:10-14
King James Version
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time,
that now it is high time to awake out of sleep:
for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand:
let us therefore cast off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day;
not in rioting and drunkenness,
not in chambering and wantonness,
not in strife and envying.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for the flesh,
to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Galatians 5:16-18
King James Version
16 This I say then,
Walk in the Spirit,
and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh:
and these are contrary the one to the other:
so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit,
ye are not under the law.
1 Timothy 6:17-19
King James Version
17 Charge them that are rich in this world,
that they be not highminded,
nor trust in uncertain riches,
but in the living God,
who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good,
that they be rich in good works,
ready to distribute,
willing to communicate;
19 Laying up in store for themselves
a good foundation against the time to come,
that they may lay hold on eternal life.
1 Timothy 6:20-21
King James Version
20 O Timothy,
keep that which is committed to thy trust,
avoiding profane and vain babblings,
and oppositions of science falsely so called:
21 Which some professing have erred
concerning the faith.
Grace be with thee.
Amen.
1 John 4:21
King James Version
21 And this commandment have we from him,
That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Now we know how to be holy.
Now we know how to have perfect obedience.
Now we know how to really love GOD, and others.
All because GOD loved us first.
All because JESUS taught us GOD's commands.
All because SPIRIT reminds us what JESUS taught.
Have we any more excuse not to be of GOD?
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