WEBRead for This Week’s Study: Matt. 5:17–19, 5:21–44, Mark . 7:9–13, Matt. 19:16–22. Memory Text: “ ‘If you love Me, keep My commandments’ ” (John 14:15, NKJV). T. hough many leaders in Israel highly exalted the law, some mis-understood its purpose, believing that they could obtain righ-teousness by obeying the law.