Numbers 15:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Remember

Ye seek not

Go a whoring

James 4:4

General references

Deuteronomy 6:8

Bible References

Remember

And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

"You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Ye seek not

one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

Go a whoring

lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,

For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

"Plead with your mother, plead-- for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband-- that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

General references

You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.