"So then, obey the commands that I have given you today; love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart.

Be sure that you obey all the laws that he has given you.

"So then, obey the commands that I have given you today; love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart.

Jesus answered, " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

And now there is waiting for me the victory prize of being put right with God, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that Day---and not only to me, but to all those who wait with love for him to appear.

This is how we know that we love God's children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

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

Have reverence for the LORD your God and worship only him. Be faithful to him and make your promises in his name alone.

Love the LORD your God, obey him and be faithful to him, and then you and your descendants will live long in the land that he promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.

When he arrived and saw how God had blessed the people, he was glad and urged them all to be faithful and true to the Lord with all their hearts.

I am jealous for you, just as God is; you are like a pure virgin whom I have promised in marriage to one man only, Christ himself.

I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and that you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ---in the same way that Eve was deceived by the snake's clever lies.