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Men jag säger eder: Var och en som med begärelse ser på en annans hustru, han har redan begått äktenskapsbrott med henne i sitt hjärta.
Matteus 5:28
Arcana Coelestia # 9282
9282. 'And all that I have said to you you shall keep' means that they should carry out the commandments, judgements, and statutes. This is clear from the meaning of 'all that Jehovah said to them' as all laws of life, laws of worship, and laws of the civic state (laws of life are called 'commandments', those of worship are called 'statutes', and those of the civic state are called 'judgements', 8972); and from the meaning of 'keeping' or observing as carrying out, for when anyone carries them out they are observed. Since those laws of life, laws of worship, and laws of the civic state are not anything with a person as long as they are confined to his understanding, and are only something with him when they are present in his will, it is stated everywhere in the Word that they must be carried out, for carrying them out belongs to the will. But knowing, understanding, acknowledging, and believing belong to the understanding; yet they do not have any being with the person until they become part of his will, and there is no manifestation of them with him until they become part of an understanding rooted in the will. For having being consists in willing, and manifestation in acknowledging and believing as a result of willing. Things that have no such being or manifestation with a person are not properly his own. They stand outside, not as yet received into the house. So they make no contribution at all towards the person's eternal life. For such things if they have not become part of his life are dispelled in the next life; the only things to remain will be those which are in his heart, that is, in his will and from there in his understanding. This being so, it is stated everywhere in the Word that commandments and statutes must be carried out, as in Moses,
You shall carry out My judgements and keep My statutes, to go in them. Therefore you shall keep My statutes and My judgements, which if a person carries them out, he will live by them. Leviticus 18:4-5.
It is also stated in Matthew 5:19; 7:24-27; 16:27; John 3:21; and very many times elsewhere.
Ezekiel 5:6-7
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She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
