¹ Then Moses and the responsible men of Israel gave the people these orders: Keep all the orders which I have given you this day;

¹ And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

² Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.

³² And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

¹⁶ Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul.

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

¹ And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

² Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

¹⁰ For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.