1 Samuel 12:14
Good News Translation
All will go well with you if you honor the LORD your God, serve him, listen to him, and obey his commands, and if you and your king follow him.

New Revised Standard Version
If you will fear the LORD and serve him and heed his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well;

Contemporary English Version
If you and your king want to be followers of the LORD, you must worship him and do what he says. Don't be stubborn!

New American Bible
If you fear and serve the LORD, if you listen to the voice of the LORD and do not rebel against the LORD’s command, if both you and the king, who rules over you, follow the LORD your God—well and good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and the king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord your God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and the king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord your God.

If ye will

Leviticus 20:1-13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth. . . .

Joshua 24:14,20 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. . . .

Psalm 81:12-15 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions. . . .

Isaiah 3:10 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

Romans 2:7 To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

commandment [heb] mouth

Context
Samuel's Farewell Address
13Now, therefore, your king is here, whom you have chosen and desired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king. 14If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and the king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord your God.15But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but will rebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and upon your fathers.…
Cross References
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Lamentations 1:18
Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.

1 Samuel 12:13
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