I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
Parallel translations
- WEB I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;
- BSB I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice 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 3:22–23Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
- Ps 105:45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
- Deut 5:32Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
- Ezek 36:27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
- Deut 12:1These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
- Ps 81:9–10There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
- Ezek 37:24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
- Ezek 11:20That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
- Deut 5:6–7I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
- Ps 19:7–11The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
- Deut 11:1Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
- Deut 8:1All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
- Deut 7:4–6For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
- Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
- Deut 10:1–12At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
- Exod 20:2–3I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Neh 9:13–14Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
- Deut 4:1Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
- Deut 5:1And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
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