I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
Parallel translations
- WEB I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;
- KJV I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
- NKJV I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;
- NASB I am the Lord your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and follow them.
- NLT ‘I am the Lord your God,’ I told them. ‘Follow my decrees, pay attention to my regulations,
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Quick answer
God called the children to know Him as the Lord their God and to walk in His statutes and ordinances. True worship means wholehearted obedience to Him alone.
Overview
The repeated declaration 'I am Yahweh your God' grounds the call to obedience in the covenant relationship. Keeping God's commands is the proper response to His grace, not a means of earning it. This gracious summons anticipates the new covenant, in which God writes His law on the hearts of His people (Jeremiah 31:33).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Jer 3:22–23“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
- Ps 105:45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
- Deut 5:32So 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.
- Ezek 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
- Deut 12:1These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
- Ps 81:9–10There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
- Ezek 37:24My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
- Ezek 11:20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Deut 5:6–7“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Ps 19:7–11The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
- Deut 11:1You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
- Deut 8:1You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
- Deut 7:4–6because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
- Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
- Deut 10:1–12At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- Exod 20:2–3“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Neh 9:13–14You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
- Deut 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
- Deut 5:1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
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