'Statutes' in the Bible

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My mandate, My commands, My statutes, and My instructions.”

He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I make a decision between one man and another. I teach them God’s statutes and laws.”

Instruct them about the statutes and laws, and teach them the way to live and what they must do.

and teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has given to them through Moses.”

You are to practice My ordinances and you are to keep My statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God.

Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am Yahweh.

But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable things—not the native or the foreigner who lives among you.

“You are to keep My statutes. You must not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.

You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am Yahweh.”

Keep My statutes and do them; I am Yahweh who sets you apart.

“You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.

“You are to keep My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

“If you follow My statutes and faithfully observe My commands,

if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,

For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws the Lord established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

You must observe it at its appointed time on the fourteenth day of this month at twilight; you are to observe it according to all its statutes and ordinances.”

they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.

“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live, enter, and take possession of the land Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Look, I have taught you statutes and ordinances as the Lord my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to possess.

Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’

And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

At that time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.

Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,

Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.

But you stand here with Me, and I will tell you every command—the statutes and ordinances—you are to teach them, so that they may follow them in the land I am giving them to possess.’

“This is the command—the statutes and ordinances—the Lord your God has instructed me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.

Do this so that you may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life by keeping all His statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.

Carefully observe the commands of the Lord your God, the decrees and statutes He has commanded you.

“When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which the Lord our God has commanded you?’

The Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the Lord our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.

So keep the command—the statutes and ordinances—that I am giving you to follow today.

“Be careful that you don’t forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His command—the ordinances and statutes—I am giving you today.

Keep the Lord’s commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.

“Therefore, love the Lord your God and always keep His mandate and His statutes, ordinances, and commands.

be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances I set before you today.

“Be careful to follow these statutes and ordinances in the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the earth.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.

It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.

“The Lord your God is commanding you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and all your soul.

Today you have affirmed that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey Him.

Obey the Lord your God and follow His commands and statutes I am giving you today.”

“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:

“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.

when you obey the Lord your God by keeping His commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to Him with all your heart and all your soul.

For I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and multiply, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

Indeed, I have kept all His ordinances in mindand have not disregarded His statutes.

and keep your obligation to the Lord your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commands, ordinances, and decrees. This is written in the law of Moses, so that you will have success in everything you do and wherever you turn,

Solomon loved the Lord by walking in the statutes of his father David, but he also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

If you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commands just as your father David did, I will give you a long life.”

“As for this temple you are building—if you walk in My statutes, observe My ordinances, and keep all My commands by walking in them, I will fulfill My promise to you, which I made to your father David.

As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

If you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep My commands—My statutes that I have set before you—and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,

Then the Lord said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and did not keep My covenant and My statutes, which I commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

For they have abandoned Me; they have bowed the knee to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and to carry out My statutes and My judgments as his father David did.

“‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand but will let him be ruler all the days of his life because of My servant David, whom I chose and who kept My commands and My statutes.

“‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and My commands as My servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commands and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.”

They rejected His statutes and His covenant He had made with their ancestors and the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

They are still practicing the former customs to this day. None of them fear the Lord or observe their statutes and ordinances, the law and commandments the Lord commanded the descendants of Jacob. He had renamed him Israel.

You are to be careful always to observe the statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandments He wrote for you; do not fear other gods.

Next, the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord and to keep His commands, His decrees, and His statutes with all his mind and with all his heart, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book; all the people agreed to the covenant.

Then you will succeed if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or discouraged.

Give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and to carry out all Your commands, Your decrees, and Your statutes, and to build the temple for which I have made provision.

As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

However, if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,

for every dispute that comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards differences of bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, or judgments—you are to warn them, so they will not incur guilt before the Lord and wrath will not come on you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.

I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from the land where I stationed your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the law, statutes, and judgments.”

Then the king stood at his post and made a covenant in the Lord’s presence to follow the Lord and to keep His commands, His decrees, and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul in order to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book.

Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the Lord, obey it, and teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the Lord’s commands and statutes for Israel:

We have acted corruptly toward You and have not kept the commands, statutes, and ordinances You gave Your servant Moses.

You revealed Your holy Sabbath to them,and gave them commands, statutes, and instructionthrough Your servant Moses.

join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of Yahweh our Lord.

Indeed, I have kept all His ordinances in mindand have not disregarded His statutes.

But God says to the wicked:“What right do you have to recite My statutesand to take My covenant on your lips?

if they dishonor My statutesand do not keep My commands,

He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud;they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

All this happenedso that they might keep His statutesand obey His instructions.Hallelujah!

If only my ways were committedto keeping Your statutes!

I will keep Your statutes;never abandon me.

Lord, may You be praised;teach me Your statutes.

I will delight in Your statutes;I will not forget Your word.

Though princes sit together speaking against me,Your servant will think about Your statutes;

I told You about my life,and You listened to me;teach me Your statutes.

ה HeTeach me, Lord, the meaning of Your statutes,and I will always keep them.

I will lift up my hands to Your commands,which I love,and will meditate on Your statutes.

Your statutes are the theme of my songduring my earthly life.

Lord, the earth is filled with Your faithful love;teach me Your statutes.

You are good, and You do what is good;teach me Your statutes.

It was good for me to be afflictedso that I could learn Your statutes.

May my heart be blameless regarding Your statutesso that I will not be put to shame.

Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke,I do not forget Your statutes.

I am resolved to obey Your statutesto the very end.

Sustain me so that I can be safeand always be concerned about Your statutes.

You reject all who stray from Your statutes,for their deceit is a lie.