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Q104: What are the duties required in the first commandment?
A104: The duties required in the first commandment are,
  1. (1Ch 28:9) "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

    (Deu 26:7) 'Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;

    (Isa 43:10) "You are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.

    (Jer 14:22) Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain? Or can the heavens grant showers? Is it not You, O LORD our God? Therefore we hope in You, For You are the one who has done all these things.

  2. (Psa 95:6-7) Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. . . .

    (Mat 4:10) Then Jesus *said to him, "Go, Satan! For it is written, 'YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.'"

    (Psa 29:2) Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to His name; Worship the LORD in holy array.

  3. (Mal 3:16) Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who esteem His name.

  4. (Psa 63:6) When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches,

  5. (Ecc 12:1) Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, "I have no delight in them";

  6. (Psa 71:19) For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You?

  7. (Mal 1:6) " 'A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?' says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, 'How have we despised Your name?'

  8. (Isa 45:23) "I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.

  9. (Jos 24:15, 22) "If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." . . . Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the LORD, to serve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses."

  10. (Deu 6:5) "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might."

  11. (Psa 73:25) Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

  12. (Isa 8:13) "It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread."

  13. (Exo 14:31) When Israel saw the great power which the LORD had used against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in His servant Moses.

  14. (Isa 26:4) "Trust in the LORD forever, For in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.

  15. (Psa 130:7) O Israel, hope in the LORD; For with the LORD there is lovingkindness, And with Him is abundant redemption.

  16. (Psa 37:4) Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart.

  17. (Psa 32:11) Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous ones; And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.

  18. (Rom 12:11) not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

    (Num 25:11) "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.

  19. (Php 4:6) Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

  20. (Jer 7:23) "But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.'"

  21. (1Jn 3:22) and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

  22. (Jer 31:18) "I have surely heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained calf; Bring me back that I may be restored, For You are the LORD my God.'"