Welcome to Believe, Obey, Live. This is a site where I gather and share my personal Bible studies. My goal is to present Scripture with a minimum of “private interpretation”, letting God’s word speak for itself.
The name of the site is based on my understanding that if you believe and obey, and endure to the end, you will live:
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name ...
Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
... showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
The Hebrew word for "listen" here is shawmah, which means hear/obey.
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am YHWH.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
... that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
Blessed 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.
Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants, to love YHWH your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days ...