⁵ I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.

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.

¹⁹ So that your faith may be in the Lord, I have made them clear to you this day, even to you.

²⁰ Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

²⁷ For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

²⁸ But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.

³ For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

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.

⁵ And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;