Joshua 1:8

Joshua is to meditate on God's law day and night and obey it, and then his way will prosper. Saturating life in Scripture is the path to true success.

Cross-references · 33

• Ps 119:15I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
• Ps 19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
• Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
• Deut 29:9Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
• John 14:21One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
• Deut 6:6–9These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
• Matt 7:24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
• Jas 1:22–25But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• Ps 1:1–3Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
• Ps 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
• Deut 11:18–19Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
• John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
• Prov 2:1–5My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
• Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• Josh 1:7Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
• Ps 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
• Deut 30:14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
• Deut 5:29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
• Ps 119:99I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
• Isa 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”
• Eph 4:29Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
• Deut 5:32You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
• Matt 12:35The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
• Ps 119:42–43So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
• Deut 31:11when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
• 1 Tim 4:14–16Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
• Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
• Deut 17:18–19It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
• Ps 40:10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

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