"When the LORD spoke to you from the fire on Mount Sinai, you did not see any form. For your own good, then, make certain

Be certain that you do not forget the covenant that the LORD your God made with you. Obey his command not to make yourselves any kind of idol,

If you obey him, the LORD will keep the promise he made when he told me that my descendants would rule Israel as long as they were careful to obey his commands faithfully with all their heart and soul.

I said, "I will be careful about what I do and will not let my tongue make me sin; I will not say anything while evil people are near."

How can young people keep their lives pure? By obeying your commands.

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

That is why we must hold on all the more firmly to the truths we have heard, so that we will not be carried away.

Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.

Obey them all, so that everything will go well with you and so that you will continue to live in the land that you are going to occupy.

"Now, people of Israel, listen to what the LORD your God demands of you: Worship the LORD and do all that he commands. Love him, serve him with all your heart,

and obey all his laws. I am giving them to you today for your benefit.

Now, LORD God of Israel, keep the other promise you made to my father when you told him that there would always be one of his descendants ruling as king of Israel, provided that they carefully obeyed your Law just as he did.

do hereby join with our leaders in an oath, under penalty of a curse if we break it, that we will live according to God's Law, which God gave through his servant Moses; that we will obey all that the LORD, our Lord, commands us; and that we will keep all his laws and requirements.

They did not keep their covenant with God; they refused to obey his law.

I will put my spirit in you and will see to it that you follow my laws and keep all the commands I have given you.

We did not listen to you, O LORD our God, when you told us to live according to the laws which you gave us through your servants the prophets.

But he imitated the sin of King Jeroboam, who led Israel into the sin of worshiping the gold bull-calves he set up in Bethel and in Dan.

Yet, like King Jeroboam son of Nebat before him, he led Israel into sin and would not stop.

The LORD will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin."