"All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not."
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Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment:
Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.
all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not,
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
All therefore, whatever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but do not ye according to their works: for they say, and do not.
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.
all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;