'Rules' in the Bible

Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do.

And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.

And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,

And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

These are the rules, decisions, and laws, which the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.

And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;

Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.

And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.

And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.

And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.

And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.

And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.

So they were put into their different groups, to take their places in the house of the Lord, in agreement with the rules made by Aaron their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day.

And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.

And if any cause comes before you from your brothers living in their towns, where the death punishment is in question, or where there are questions of law or order, or rules or decisions, make them take care that they are not in the wrong before the Lord, so that wrath may not come on you and on your brothers; do this and you yourselves will not be in the wrong.

Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

And never again will I let the feet of Israel be moved out of the land which I have given to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, even all the law and the orders and the rules given to them by Moses.

Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.

For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.

Now this is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe, who put into writing the words of the orders of the Lord, and of his rules for Israel:

We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.

And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:

They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;

And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God;

Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in the book.

If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.

Praise be to you, O Lord: give me knowledge of your rules.

I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.

I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.

O Lord, let me see the way of your rules, and I will keep it to the end.

And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: give me knowledge of your rules.

You are good, and your works are good; give me knowledge of your rules.

It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.

For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.

I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.

My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

Let me not be moved, and I will be safe, and ever take delight in your rules.

You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.

Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.

Let your servant see the shining of your face; give me knowledge of your rules.

I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.

Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;

But to the Rechabites Jeremiah said, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have done the orders of Jonadab your father, and have kept his rules, and done everything as he gave you orders to do it;

Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.

And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.

For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round about you, and have not been guided by my rules or kept my orders, but have kept the orders of the nations round about you;

And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.

So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.

But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.

But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.

And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.

Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.

And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.

And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;

If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.

And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.

And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.