Deuteronomy 4:2
You shall not add to the word which I enjoin you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the mitzvot ·instructions· of Adonai your God which I enjoin you.
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Deuteronomy 5:29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my mitzvot ·instructions· always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
Deuteronomy 12:32Whatever thing I enjoin you, that you shall observe to do. + 12:32. Deut 12:32 [Heb Bible Deut 13:1] (#1.43): T. Not to add to God’s Torah ·Teaching· commandments / R. Not to add to the Torah ·Teaching· commandments, whether in the Written Law or their oral explanations You shall not add to it, + 12:32. Deut 12:32 [Heb Bible Deut 13:1] (#1.44): T. Not to subtract from or diminish any of the Torah ·Teaching· commandments / R. Not to diminish from the Torah ·Teaching· any commandments, in whole or in part nor take away from it. + 12:32. Quoted in Rev 22:18
Proverbs 30:6Don’t you add to his words, 2 lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar. 1
Matthew 5:43“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall show agapao ·total devoted love· to your neighbor + 5:43. Quoted from Lev 19:18 and hate and detest 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 →