Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
- BSB You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
- 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
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- Deut 6:5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
- 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,
- Luke 1:74–75That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
- Deut 30:16–20In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- Zech 3:7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
- Lev 8:35Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
- Deut 6:1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
- Deut 4:40Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
- Ps 105:45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
- Deut 4:1Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
- Ps 116:1I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
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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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