and keep the instruction of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
and they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also [set they] in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the instruction of the LORD our God; but you have forsaken him.
But let no one come into the house of the LORD, except the priests, and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow the LORD's instructions.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, the LORD, have spoken it;)
they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.
[It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.
They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction."
You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words? says the LORD.
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.
Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.
A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
"Thus says the LORD of Armies: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
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