and obey all his laws. I am giving them to you today for your benefit.

Do you help God by being so righteous? There is nothing God needs from you.

Others suffer from your sins, and the good you do helps them.

You are the one who will profit if you have wisdom, and if you reject it, you are the one who will suffer.

The righteous will be happy, and things will go well for them. They will get to enjoy what they have worked for.

I will give them a single purpose in life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.

Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.

What did you gain from doing the things that you are now ashamed of ? The result of those things is death!

But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.

Then Moses said to the people, "Obey all the laws that I am teaching you, and you will live and occupy the land which the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

but those of you who were faithful to the LORD your God are still alive today.

"Obey faithfully all the laws that I have given you today, so that you may live, increase in number, and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors.

He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the LORD says.

The LORD will protect them and preserve their lives; he will make them happy in the land; he will not abandon them to the power of their enemies.

He has kept us alive and has not allowed us to fall.

Obey the LORD, be humble, and you will get riches, honor, and a long life.

Moses wrote this about being put right with God by obeying the Law: "Whoever obeys the commands of the Law will live."