be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
- KJV And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
- NKJV And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.
- NASB and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am placing before you today.
- NLT you must be careful to obey all the decrees and regulations I am giving you today.
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Quick answer
They must carefully observe all the statutes and ordinances set before them. Entering the land calls for wholehearted obedience.
Overview
Moses closes the exhortation by charging Israel to keep all God's laws diligently. Life in the land was to be marked by faithful observance of His word. This call to careful obedience prepares for the detailed statutes that follow and points to the obedience of faith fulfilled in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Deut 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
- Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
- Ps 119:6Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.
- John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- Matt 7:21–27Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
- Deut 5:32–33So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
- 1 Th 4:1–2Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
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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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