Deu 4:2, 12:32, 1Sa 15:1-3, 8-9, 11, 19-22, Mat 23:23, Luk 11:42 | ESV | STEP | You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it , that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.

Deuteronomy 4:2

2 ^aYou shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.

Deuteronomy 12:32

32 ^{▼▼Ch 13:1 in Hebrew} “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. ^cYou shall not add to it or take from it.

1 Samuel 15:1-3

The Lord Rejects Saul

1 And Samuel said to Saul, ^d“The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel ^ein opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and strike Amalek and ^fdevote to destruction ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20, 21} all that they have. Do not spare them, ^hbut kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

1 Samuel 15:8-9

8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive ⁱand devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 ^jBut Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain} and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.

1 Samuel 15:11

11 ^l“I regret ^{▼▼See also verses 29, 35} that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and ⁿhas not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.

1 Samuel 15:19-22

19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? ^oWhy did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?” 20 And Saul said to Samuel, ^p“I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 21 ^qBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” 22 And Samuel said,

^r“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, ^sto obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.

Matthew 23:23

23 ^t“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ^uyou tithe mint and dill and ^vcumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: ^wjustice and mercy and faithfulness. ^xThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Luke 11:42

42 ^y“But woe to you Pharisees! For ^zyou tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect ^aajustice and ^abthe love of God. ^acThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.