Deuteronomy 4:2
You are not to add to or take away from what I'm telling you, so that you can keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I'm ordering you to follow.
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Deuteronomy 5:29I only wish they really did respect me and always kept my commandments so that they and their children would do well for all time.
Deuteronomy 12:32Be careful to do everything I order you to do. Don't add or take away anything from these instructions.
Joshua 1:7Just be strong and very brave, and be sure to obey all the law that my servant Moses instructed you to follow. Don't turn aside from it, either to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful in everything you do.
Proverbs 30:6Don't add anything to his words, or he will criticize you and you'll be shown to be a liar.
Jeremiah 26:2This is what the Lord says: Go and stand in the Temple courtyard and deliver the whole message I have ordered you to give to everyone who comes from all the towns of Judah to worship there. Don't leave out a single word.
Matthew 5:43You've heard that the law said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41
Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →