Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 12
- Deut 6:5You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
- 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,
- Luke 1:74–75to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
- Deut 30:16–20For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
- Zech 3:7“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
- Lev 8:35You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”
- Deut 6:1Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Deut 4:40You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
- Ps 105:45that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
- Deut 4:1Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Ps 116:1I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
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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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