Danger of Prosperity
“Remember then, it is the LORD, your God, who gives you the power to acquire wealth, by fulfilling, as he has now done, the covenant which he swore to your fathers.”
-Dt 8:18
Various Precepts
“When you make a vow to the LORD, your God, you shall not delay in fulfilling it; otherwise you will be held guilty, for the LORD, your God, is strict in requiring it to you.”
-Dt 23:22
God’s Fidelity
When you have children and grandchildren, and have grown old in the land, should you then degrade yourselves by fashioning an idol in any form and by this evil done in his sight provoke the LORD, your God.
Dt 4:25
Punishment of Blasphemy
Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death. The whole community shall stone him; alien and native alike must be put to death for blaspheming the Lord’s name.
Lv 24:16
Various Precepts
A woman shall not wear an article proper to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s dress; for anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, your God.
Dt 22:5
The Decalogue
You shall not take the name of the LORD, your God, in vain. For the LORD will not leave unpunished him who takes his name in vain.
Dt 5:11
God’s Fidelity
The LORD will scatter you among the nations, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the LORD will lead you. There you shall serve gods fashioned by the hands of man out of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither eat nor smell. Yet there too you shall indeed find him when you search after him with your whole soul. In your distress, when all these things shall have come upon you, you shall finally return to the LORD, your God, and heed his voice. Since the LORD, your God, is a merciful God, he will not abandon and destroy you, not forget the covenant which under oath he made with your fathers.
Dt 4:27-31
Moses as Mediator
For what mortal has heard, as we have, the voice of the living God, speaking from the midst of fire, and survived? Go closer, you, and hear all that the LORD, our God, tells you; we will listen and obey.
Dt 5:26-27
Danger of Idolatry
Not to degrade yourselves by fashioning an idol to represent any figure, whether it be in a form of a man or a woman, of any animal on the earth or of any bird that flies in the sky, of anything that crawls on the ground or of any fish in the waters under the earth. And when you look up to the heavens and behold the sun or the moon or any star among the heavenly hosts, do not be led astray into adoring them. These the LORD, your God, has let fall to the lot of all other nations under the heavens.
Dt 4: 16-19
Penalties for Idolatry
The LORD, your GOd, shall you follow, and him shall you fear; his commandments shall you observe, and his voice shall you heed, serving him and holding fast to him alone.
Dt 13:5
Laws concerning Heiresses
May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all mankind, set over the community a man who shall act as their leader in all things, to guide them in all their actions; that the LORD’s community may not be like sheep without a shepherd.
The Lord’s Majesty
The LORD, your God, shall you fear, and him shall you serve; hold fast to him and swear by his name. He is your glory, he, your God, who has done for you those great and terrible things which your own eyes have seen.
Dt 10:20-21
Appointment of Elders
“In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no man, for judgment is God’s. Refer to me any case that is too hard for you and I will hear it. Thereupon I gave you all the commands you were to fulfill.
Dt 1:17-18
The Great Commandment
Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today. Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest. Bind them at your wrist as a sign let them be as a pendant on your forehead. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
Dt 6:5-9
Instruction to Children
Therefore, the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the LORD, our God, that we may always have as prosperous and happy a life as we have today; and our justice before the LORD, our God, is to consist in carefully observing all these commandments he has enjoined on us.
Dt 6:24-25
Fidelity in Prosperity
Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that you may, according to his word, prosper, and may enter in and possess the good land which the LORD promised an oath to your fathers, thrusting all your enemies out of your way.
Dt 6: 18-19
The Decalogue
“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD, your God, has commanded you, that you may have a long life and prosperity in the land which the LORD, your God is giving you.”
Dt 5:16
Doxology
To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Jude 25
The Lord’s Majesty
For the Lord, your God, is the God of gods, the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who has no favorites, accepts no bribes; who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and befriends the alien, feeding and clothing him.
Dt 10: 17-18
