Deuteronomy 16:20
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Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.
He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”