And you will again obey the Lord, and follow all His commandments which I am commanding you today.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
- KJV And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
- BSB And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.
- NKJV And you will again obey the voice of the Lord and do all His commandments which I command you today.
- NLT Then you will again obey the Lord and keep all his commands that I am giving you today.
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Quick answer
The renewed people will again obey the Lord and keep his commandments. Restored hearts produce restored obedience.
Overview
Following the promise of heart-circumcision, Moses foresees Israel returning to obedience, doing 'all his commandments.' The transformed heart bears the fruit of glad obedience. This shows that true obedience flows from God's renewing work, a pattern fulfilled in believers whom the Spirit enables to walk in newness of life.
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Cross-references · 11
- Eph 2:16and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
- Ezek 36:27I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
- Deut 30:2and return to Yahweh your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
- Ezek 11:19–20I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Jer 32:39–40and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
- Isa 1:25–26and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
- Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
- Ezek 37:24My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
- Prov 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
- Rom 11:26–27and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
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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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