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Psalms 31:23
Love the Lord, all His godly ones! The Lord watches over the faithful But fully repays the one who acts arrogantly.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
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1 Corinthians 8 3
but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
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Deuteronomy 30:16
in that I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you may live and become numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
“ And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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1 Kings 3 6
Then Solomon said,“ You have shown great faithfulness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth, righteousness, and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great faithfulness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
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1 Kings 3 14
And if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”
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Deuteronomy 30:20
by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding close to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, so that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
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1 John 4 19-1 John 4 20
We love, because He first loved us.If someone says,“ I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
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2 Chronicles 17 3-2 Chronicles 17 5
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,but sought the God of his father, followed His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.So the Lord established the kingdom in his control, and all Judah gave tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.
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2 Kings 18 22
However, if you say to me,‘ We have trusted in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has removed, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem,‘ You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
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John 14:21
The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
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Mark 12:29-30
Jesus answered,“ The foremost is,‘ Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one;and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
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1 Kings 15 3
He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.
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2 Kings 14 4
Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Kings 11 38
Then it shall be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by keeping My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
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1 Kings 15 14
But the high places were not eliminated; nevertheless Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.
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James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters: did God not choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
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2 Kings 15 4
Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Kings 22 43
He walked entirely in the way of his father Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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2 Samuel 12 24-2 Samuel 12 25
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went in to her and slept with her; and she gave birth to a son, and he named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved him,and sent word through Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah for the Lord’s sake.
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John 14:15
“ If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
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1John 5:2-3
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1 Kings 11 4
For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of his father David had been.
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James 1:12
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
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1 Kings 11 6
So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as his father David had done.
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2 Kings 12 3
Only the high places did not end; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Chronicles 28 8-1 Chronicles 28 9
So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the presence of our God, keep and seek after all the commandments of the Lord your God so that you may possess the good land and leave it as an inheritance to your sons after you forever.“ As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
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2 Kings 15 35
Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 18 4
He removed the high places and smashed the memorial stones to pieces, and cut down the Asherah. He also crushed to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel had been burning incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
“ Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live.
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Matthew 22:37
And He said to him,“ ‘ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
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Romans 8:28
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
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1 Kings 9 4
As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and honesty, acting in accordance with everything that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My ordinances,
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1 Kings 2 3-1 Kings 2 4
Do your duty to the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn,so that the Lord may fulfill His promise which He spoke regarding me, saying,‘ If your sons are careful about their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and all their soul, you shall not be deprived of a man to occupy the throne of Israel.’
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1 Kings 11 34
Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who kept My commandments and My statutes;