“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,
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,
- KJV 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,
- 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,
- 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 10:12Now, 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,
- Deut 4:29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deut 6:17You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
- Deut 6:5–6You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
- Deut 11:8Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
- Ps 119:4You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
- Deut 11:22For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to 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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