If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve the LORD."

Your commandments are my eternal possession; they are the joy of my heart.

but just one is needed. Mary has chosen the right thing, and it will not be taken away from her."

But if the enemies of my people want my protection, let them make peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with me."

"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.

And that is how God will bless my descendants, because he has made an eternal covenant with me, an agreement that will not be broken, a promise that will not be changed. That is all I desire; that will be my victory, and God will surely bring it about.

They will ask the way to Zion and then go in that direction. They will make an eternal covenant with me and never break it.

To those who were to receive what he promised, God wanted to make it very clear that he would never change his purpose; so he added his vow to the promise.