2 Chronicles 15:3

Asa's Religious Reforms

² Azariah went to Asa and said: Listen to me Asa and all you men from Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you when you are with him. If you will dedicate your lives to serve him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you. ³ For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law. ⁴ When they were in trouble they turned to Jehovah the God of Israel. When they searched for him, he let them find him.

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Leviticus 10:11

You must also teach the people of Israel everything that I commanded Moses to say to them.

1 Kings 12:28-33

After asking for advice, the king made two golden calves. He said: You have been worshiping in Jerusalem long enough. Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt.

Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel will live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.

Deuteronomy 33:10

They will teach your ordinances to Jacob, and your Law to Israel. They will burn incense before you, and whole burnt offerings on your altar.

2 Chronicles 17:8-9

With them were the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, Tob Adonijah, and the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

Nehemiah 8:9

Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha (Governor), and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people: This day is holy to Jehovah your God. Let there be no sorrow or weeping. For all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.

Jeremiah 10:10

Jehovah is the true (faithful) (right) God! He is the living God and the everlasting king. The earth quakes at his wrath. The nations cannot endure his indignation.

Ezekiel 44:21-23

None of the priests may drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard.

Micah 3:11

The leaders judge for a bribe, and the priests teach for wages! The prophets predict for money yet they rely on Jehovah when they say: Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.

Malachi 2:7

The priests should teach the true knowledge of God. They are the messengers of Jehovah of Hosts. Therefore the people should learn (my will) the law from them.

Matthew 2:4-5

He called together all the chief priests and teachers of the Law and asked where will the Messiah be born?

John 17:3

This is everlasting life that they should have *deep, intimate knowledge of you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have commissioned. *(Greek: ginosko: know, perceive, be sure, understand)

Romans 2:12

For all who have sinned without law will perish without law. All who have sinned under law will be judged under law.

Romans 7:8-9

But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead.

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those without Law I became like those without Law that I might gain them. I am not without law to God, but under the law to (toward) (of) Christ.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

All those people speak about how you received us when we visited you, and how you turned away from idols to God, to serve the true and living God,

1 Timothy 3:2

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach;

1 John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. We know him that is true for we are in him who is true, [and] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and everlasting life.