Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible





These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.













You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.



Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,


and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, 'If your descendants watch their step and live faithfully in my presence with all their heart and being, then,' he promised, 'you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

not like those who do their work only when someone is watching -- as people-pleasers -- but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.

Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

I am determined to obey your statutes at all times, to the very end.



Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being, and to keep the Lord's commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?





Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you understand it?" The expert answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself." read more.
Jesus said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live."


You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.

"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. read more.
The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?" Jesus answered, "The most important is: 'Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' read more.
The second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." The expert in the law said to him, "That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him. And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

"Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other. What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.

Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God!






Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.




Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being, and to keep the Lord's commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?

With what should I enter the Lord's presence? With what should I bow before the sovereign God? Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? Will the Lord accept a thousand rams, or ten thousand streams of olive oil? Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion, my offspring -- my own flesh and blood -- for my sin? He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful, and to live obediently before your God.

When you make a vow to the Lord your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he will surely hold you accountable as a sinner.

One should think about us this way -- as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Now what is sought in stewards is that one be found faithful.



Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.


You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.















You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.







Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.





Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.


You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.