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Ezra 7:10

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For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

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O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and fix their heart toward You.

And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.

Nevertheless good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God.”

And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave Ezra the priest, the scribe, expert in the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of His statutes to Israel:

And you, Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are in the region beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach those who do not know them.

this Ezra came up from Babylon; and he was a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.

“If you would prepare your heart, And stretch out your hands toward Him;

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.

Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart; You will cause Your ear to hear,

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes Forever, to the very end.

And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and give praise.

“For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

They shall teach Jacob Your judgments, And Israel Your law. They shall put incense before You, And a whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:

Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”




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