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Deuteronomy 11:1

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You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
Deuteronomy 11:1 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
  • KJV Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
  • NKJV “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
  • NASB “You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep His directive, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
  • NLT “You must love the Lord your God and always obey his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.

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Quick answer

Israel is therefore to love God and keep all His commandments continually. Love for God is shown in lasting obedience.

Overview

In light of God's greatness and grace, Moses calls for enduring love and obedience. He joins love and keeping the commandments as inseparable. Jesus affirms this union, saying those who love Him keep His commandments, a love made possible by the Spirit He gives.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 12

  • Deut 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  • Deut 10:12And 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,
  • Luke 1:74–75deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
  • Deut 30:16–20For 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.
  • Zech 3:7“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.
  • Lev 8:35You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”
  • Deut 6:1These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
  • Deut 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  • Ps 105:45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
  • Deut 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
  • Deut 4:5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
  • Ps 116:1I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.

Themes, concepts, people & topics

Topics (3)
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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Deuteronomy videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on DeuteronomyMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • 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 11:1 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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Therefore thou shalt loveאָהַבthe LORDיְהֹוָהthy Godאֱלֹהִיםand keepשָׁמַרhis chargeמִשְׁמֶרֶתand his statutesחֻקָּהand his judgmentsמִשְׁפָּטand his commandmentsמִצְוָהalwayיוֹם
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