Always remember what you have learned. Your education is your life---guard it well.

Follow the practices and the laws that I give you; you will save your life by doing so. I am the LORD."

"Listen now, my people, and come to me; come to me, and you will have life! I will make a lasting covenant with you and give you the blessings I promised to David.

This is true, because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has commanded me what I must say and speak.

And I know that his command brings eternal life. What I say, then, is what the Father has told me to say."

"Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them."

And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

If we obey God's commands, then we are sure that we know him.

If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.

For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,

Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city.

"He found them wandering through the desert, a desolate, wind-swept wilderness. He protected them and cared for them, as he would protect himself.

Protect me as you would your very eyes; hide me in the shadow of your wings

Anyone who strikes you strikes what is most precious to me." So the LORD Almighty sent me with this message for the nations that had plundered his people: