Nehemiah 9:13

At Sinai God came down, spoke from heaven, and gave just ordinances and good laws. It matters because God's law is a gracious gift, right and good.

Cross-references · 22

• Exod 20:1And God spoke all these words:
• Ps 119:160The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
• Ps 119:127–128Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
• Exod 19:11and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
• Deut 5:22–26The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
• Rom 7:12–14So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
• Ezek 20:11–13And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
• Ps 19:7–11The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Deut 5:4The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
• Ps 119:137Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
• Exod 19:16–20On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
• Isa 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
• Deut 4:33Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
• Deut 4:8And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
• Exod 20:22Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is what you are to tell the Israelites: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.
• Isa 64:3When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
• Hab 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.
• Deut 10:12–13And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Heb 12:18–26For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
• Deut 4:10–13The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
• Deut 33:2He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
• Rom 7:16And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

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