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“Believers are expected to be involved in what Judaism calls tikkun-ha'olam, repairing the world. Tikkun-ha'olam is deeply embedded in the Jewish ethic; for this reason even secular Jews usually find themselves concerned with bettering society.”
― David H. Stern

“Judaism: A Modern Movement with an Ancient Past”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“The curse of the law” is not the curse of having to live within the framework of Torah for the Torah itself is good. Nor is it the curse of being required to obey the Torah but lacking the power to do so”
― David H. Stern, Restoring The Jewishness of the Gospel: A Message for Christians Condensed from Messianic Judaism

“the Tanakh itself requires genuine obedience to emerge from faith”
― David H. Stern, Restoring The Jewishness of the Gospel: A Message for Christians Condensed from Messianic Judaism

“You are to appoint judges and officers for all your gates [in the cities] ADONAI your God is giving you, tribe by tribe; and they are to judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 You are not to distort justice or show favoritism, and you are not to accept a bribe, for a gift blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of even the upright. 20 Justice, only justice, you must pursue; so that you will live and inherit the land ADONAI your God is giving you.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“6 Most people announce that they show kindness, but who can find someone faithful [enough to do it]?”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“Paul’s point is that that curse falls on people who are actually trying to obey the Torah if their efforts are grounded in legalism”
― David H. Stern, Restoring The Jewishness of the Gospel: A Message for Christians Condensed from Messianic Judaism

“271 Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what the day may bring. 2 Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“15 What is crooked can’t be straightened; what is not there can’t be counted.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“However, Sha’ul’s point throughout the passage, and indeed throughout Romans, is that for Jews and Gentiles alike there has never been more than one route to righteousness, namely, trusting God; so that the Torah is built on trusting God and from beginning to end has always required faith.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“2 A fool takes no pleasure in trying to understand; he only wants to express his own opinion.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by continuous exercise to distinguish good from evil.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“5 It is not good to be partial to the guilty and thus deprive the innocent of justice.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“A psalm of David: (1) ADONAI, who can rest in your tent? Who can live on your holy mountain? 2 Those who live a blameless life, who behave uprightly, who speak truth from their hearts 3 and keep their tongues from slander; who never do harm to others or seek to discredit neighbors; 4 who look with scorn on the vile, but honor those who fear ADONAI, who hold to an oath, no matter the cost; 5 who refuse usury when they lend money and refuse a bribe to damage the innocent. Those who do these things never will be moved.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“A woman is not to wear men’s clothing, and a man is not to put on women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to ADONAI your God.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“13 Here is the final conclusion, now that you have heard everything: fear God, and keep his mitzvot; this is what being human is all about. 14 For God will bring to judgment everything we do, including every secret, whether good or bad.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“The purpose of life and the meaning of history is that God will deliver humanity from the misery of sin and restore the conditions that enable individuals and peoples to relate rightly with him. Morality and happiness are inseparably linked with salvation.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah

“8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says ADONAI. 9 “As high as the sky is above the earth are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
― David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah