² Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

⁸ Keep me as the apple of your eye; Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

⁵ You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

³ This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

⁴ One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.

⁸ For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

³ Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

⁴ He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

¹⁰ He found him in a desert land, In the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

¹ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

²¹ One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

⁴⁹ For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

⁵⁰ I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.