In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God and I will exalt him.

Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

He brought me to the banqueting house and his banner over me was love.

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end.

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.

But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.