Quotes about Statutes

So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book.

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.

For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!

I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.