TSK · Nehemiah 10:29

You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today.

But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the LORD God of Israel. He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.

The first to resettle on their property and in their cities were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

Anyone who would not seek the LORD God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, male or female.

They replied,“We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.

So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly which included men and women and all those able to understand what they heard.(This happened on the first day of the seventh month.)

Those truly of Israelite descent separated from all the foreigners, standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

For the music director, according to the gittith style; a psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! You reveal your majesty in the heavens above!

so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the LORD!

The LORD will certainly have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel as his special people and restore them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family of Jacob.

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.