Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
Make sure you are very strong and brave! Carefully obey all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful in all you do.
This law scroll must not leave your lips! You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Then you will prosper and be successful.
I repeat, be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.”
In my heart I store up your words,
so I might not sin against you.
You deserve praise, O Lord!
Teach me your statutes!
With my lips I proclaim
all the regulations you have revealed.
I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules
as if they were riches of all kinds.
I will meditate on your precepts
and focus on your behavior.
I find delight in your statutes;
I do not forget your instructions.
ג (Gimel)
Be kind to your servant!
Then I will live and keep your instructions.
Open my eyes so I can truly see
the marvelous things in your law!
Your word is a lamp to walk by,
and a light to illumine my path.
Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!
My child, pay attention to my words;
listen attentively to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your sight,
guard them within your heart;
for they are life to those who find them
and healing to one’s entire body.
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,
For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.
Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he will not be crowned as the winner unless he competes according to the rules.