the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
Parallel translations
- KJV A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
- BSB a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
- NKJV the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today;
- NASB the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today;
- NLT You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today.
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Quick answer
The blessing comes if they obey the commandments of the Lord. Obedience opens the way to God's favor.
Overview
Moses defines the path to blessing as listening to and keeping God's commands. Faithful obedience aligns Israel with God's covenant promises. Yet because no one obeys perfectly, the blessing is finally secured by Christ, who fulfilled the law on behalf of His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Isa 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
- Deut 28:1–14It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Isa 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
- Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
- Lev 26:3–13“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
- John 14:21–23One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
- Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
- Ps 19:11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
- Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
- Rev 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
- Matt 25:31–46“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
- Matt 5:3–12“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
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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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