12 “And now, O Israel, what is Jehovah your God asking of you+ but to fear+ Jehovah your God, so as to walk in all his ways+ and to love him+ and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and all your soul;+

4 in order that Jehovah may carry out his word that he spoke respecting me,+ saying, ‘If your sons+ will take care of their way by walking+ before me in truth*+ with all their heart+ and with all their soul, there will not be cut off a man of yours from [sitting] upon the throne of Israel.’+

23 More than all else that is to be guarded, safeguard your heart,+ for out of it are the sources of life.+

4 And Jehovah went on to say to him: “Call his name Jezʹre·el,+ for yet a little while and I must hold an accounting for the acts of bloodshed of Jezʹre·el* against the house of Jeʹhu,+ and I must cause the royal rule of the house of Israel to cease.+

38 “But my righteous one will live by reason of faith,”+ and, “if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”+