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Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 10:12 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • KJV And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
  • NKJV “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • NASB “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • NLT “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? He requires only that you fear the Lord your God, and live in a way that pleases him, and love him and serve him with all your heart and soul.

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Quick answer

Moses asks what God requires: to fear, walk in His ways, love, and serve Him wholeheartedly. True religion is heartfelt devotion to the Lord.

Overview

This summary distills covenant obedience into fear, love, and wholehearted service of God. It shows that God desires the heart, not mere outward conformity. Jesus echoed this in the great commandment to love God with all one's being, which He alone fulfills perfectly and enables in His people by the Spirit.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 34

  • Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Deut 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  • Luke 10:27He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
  • Deut 5:33You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
  • Deut 11:13So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • Mark 12:29–33Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
  • Matt 22:37Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
  • Jer 32:39–40I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
  • 1 Jn 4:19–20We love because He first loved us.
  • Deut 30:16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
  • Deut 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • Zeph 3:9For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
  • Titus 2:11–12For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
  • Heb 12:28Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.
  • 1 Pet 1:15–17But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
  • Ps 81:13If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
  • Deut 6:13Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
  • Ps 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
  • Ps 128:1A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
  • Ezek 11:20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
  • Deut 30:20and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  • Josh 22:5But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
  • Matt 11:29–30Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Job 36:11If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
  • 1 Jn 5:5Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
  • Luke 11:42Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
  • Ps 34:9Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
  • Acts 9:31Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
  • 1 Jn 2:15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
  • 1 Jn 5:2–3By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
  • Jer 7:22–23For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
  • Rom 1:9God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
  • Ps 18:1For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).

How Deuteronomy 10:12 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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