This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God,

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right.

He answered, 'The LORD, whom I have always obeyed, will send his angel with you and give you success. You will get for my son a wife from my own people, from my father's family.

Then he blessed Joseph: "May God, whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac served, bless these boys! May God, who has led me to this very day, bless them!

The LORD said to Moses, "Now I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky for all of you. The people must go out every day and gather enough for that day. In this way I can test them to find out if they will follow my instructions.

I will be with you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.

Obey them all, so that everything will go well with you and so that you will continue to live in the land that you are going to occupy.

Follow the LORD and honor him; obey him and keep his commands; worship him and be faithful to him.

"If you obey the LORD your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised.

If you obey him, the LORD will keep the promise he made when he told me that my descendants would rule Israel as long as they were careful to obey his commands faithfully with all their heart and soul.

"Remember, LORD, that I have served you faithfully and loyally and that I have always tried to do what you wanted me to." And he began to cry bitterly.

I am always aware of the LORD's presence; he is near, and nothing can shake me.

As for me, I do what is right; be merciful to me and save me!

because you have rescued me from death and kept me from defeat. And so I walk in the presence of God, in the light that shines on the living.

Teach me, LORD, what you want me to do, and I will obey you faithfully; teach me to serve you with complete devotion.

And so I walk in the presence of the LORD in the world of the living.

Happy are those who obey the LORD, who live by his commands.

Take me with you, and we'll run away; be my king and take me to your room. We will be happy together, drink deep, and lose ourselves in love. No wonder all women love you!

May those who are wise understand what is written here, and may they take it to heart. The LORD's ways are right, and righteous people live by following them, but sinners stumble and fall because they ignore them.

Do two people start traveling together without arranging to meet?

Each nation worships and obeys its own god, but we will worship and obey the LORD our God forever and ever.

No, the LORD has told us what is good. What he requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God.

They taught what was right, not what was wrong. They lived in harmony with me; they not only did what was right themselves, but they also helped many others to stop doing evil.

They both lived good lives in God's sight and obeyed fully all the Lord's laws and commands.

And so it was that the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had a time of peace. Through the help of the Holy Spirit it was strengthened and grew in numbers, as it lived in reverence for the Lord.

There is no condemnation now for those who live in union with Christ Jesus.

Each of you should go on living according to the Lord's gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches.

How can God's temple come to terms with pagan idols? For we are the temple of the living God! As God himself has said, "I will make my home with my people and live among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

So be careful how you live. Don't live like ignorant people, but like wise people.

Then you will be able to live as the Lord wants and will always do what pleases him. Your lives will produce all kinds of good deeds, and you will grow in your knowledge of God.

Be wise in the way you act toward those who are not believers, making good use of every opportunity you have.

We encouraged you, we comforted you, and we kept urging you to live the kind of life that pleases God, who calls you to share in his own Kingdom and glory.

Finally, our friends, you learned from us how you should live in order to please God. This is, of course, the way you have been living. And now we beg and urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to do even more.

It was faith that kept Enoch from dying. Instead, he was taken up to God, and nobody could find him, because God had taken him up. The scripture says that before Enoch was taken up, he had pleased God.

No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him.

But if we live in the light---just as he is in the light---then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.