²⁶ 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:

⁵ So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

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

²¹ He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?

²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

¹⁵ If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

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

¹⁵ And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

⁴⁴ And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;

⁴⁵ So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.

³² You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

⁴⁰ Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

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.

³⁰ So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁰ And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

⁸ And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,