Deuteronomy 18:13
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You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
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Laws Concerning the Cities of Refuge, the Sacredness of Landmarks,and the Punishment of False Witnesses - Deuteronomy 19 After laying down the most important features in the national constitution, Moses glances at the manifold circumstances of civil and family life, and notices in this and the two following chapters the different ways in which the lives of individuals might be endangered, for the purpose of awakening in the minds of the people a holy reverence for human life.
Open source ↗In this chapter, I. The rights and revenues of the church are settled, and rules given concerning the Levites' ministration and maintenance (Deu 18:1-8). II. The caution against the idolatrous abominable customs of the heathen is repeated (Deu 18:9-14). III. A promise is given them of the spirit of prophecy to continue among them, and to centre at last in Christ the great prophet (Deu 18:15-18). IV. Wrath threatened against those that despise prophecy (Deu 18:19) or counterfeit it (Deu 18:20), and a rule given for the trial of it (Deu 18:21, Deu 18:22).
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Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.