And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Parallel translations
- WEB It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- BSB So 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,
- NKJV ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- NASB “And it shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,
- NLT “If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart and soul,
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Quick answer
If Israel diligently obeys, loving and serving God wholeheartedly, blessing will follow. Heartfelt obedience is the condition for the promise.
Overview
Moses sets out a conditional promise: diligent love and service of God bring His blessing. Obedience is to flow from love and engage the whole heart and soul. This call to wholehearted devotion anticipates the new-covenant heart given through Christ and the Spirit, who enables true obedience.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Deut 10:12And 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,
- Deut 4:29But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
- Deut 6:17Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
- Deut 6:5–6And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
- Deut 11:8Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
- Ps 119:4Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
- Deut 11:22For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
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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).
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