The Nugget:
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
My Comment:
The Scriptures declare that nothing is to be added to or taken from God’s revealed word as recorded in the Bible. During the time during which the Bible was still being written, God made clear to His people who His divinely authorized prophets and writers were. God did this by attesting to the truth of the message by having a prophet predict things that were to take place in his own day so that when these things took place, his word was confirmed as true prophecy. God also confirmed his messengers in other ways, including the use of miracle. The content of the Hebrew Scriptures was settled before the time of Christ. Malachi, the last prophet, wrote about B.C. 397, thus nearly 400 years prior to the birth of Christ. The book of Revelation was written about A.D. 96. The contents of the Bible was complete when John the Apostle, the last living Apostle, set aside his pen. The book of Revelation at its end (Revelation 22:18, 19) contains the final prohibition against adding to or taking from the written Word of God. Jude 1:3 clearly and unequivocally states that the body of truth we know as the Gospel had been delivered once for all to the saints. Thus there are to be no additions to the content of divine revelation. The whole of the Gospel is contained in the 27 primary sources contained in the New Testament. No one is authorized to add anything to that original deposit declared by Jude, and for which he directs we are to contend.
For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:
(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 193 for Deuteronomy 12:32.
(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 211 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Deuteronomy 12:32.
(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:
Deuteronomy 12:32. What thing soever I command. Dt 1:18. 26:16. Ex 12:50. 35:29. 39:32, 42. 40:16. observe to do it. Dt 1:18. 11:32. 19:9. Ge 6:22. 21:4. Ex 34:11. Le 8:4, 36. 18:26. Nu 1:54. Jg 13:14. 2 K 17:37. 2 Ch 30:5. +*Ps 119:4. Je 11:7. Ezk 20:19. 44:5. Mt 5:19. 7:21. 28:20. Lk 2:39. 6:46. 8:21. James 1:22. 1 J 5:16, 17. thou shalt not add. Dt 4:2. 13:18. Le 10:1. Jsh 1:7. 8:30-35. Pr 19:27. 30:6. Mt 15:9. 28:20. Mk 7:7. +*Ga 1:9. Re 22:18, 19. nor diminish. Dt 5:32. 17:20. Jsh 11:15. 23:6. Pr 4:27. Je 26:2. Re 22:19.
dt.12.32 let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear god,
and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of of man.
encouraging cross refs.
1 josh 1.8 this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth,
but thou shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate
therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to
all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous,
and then thou shalt have good success.
2. mt 7.24 therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and
doeth them, i will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house
upon a rock.
3. lk 11.28 but he said, yea reather,blessed are they that hear the word
of God, and keep it.
4. jn 13.17 if ye know these things, happy are ye if do them.