If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- KJV If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- NKJV ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,
- NASB If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,
- NLT “If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,
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Quick answer
God promises blessing if Israel walks in His statutes and obeys His commandments. Covenant faithfulness opens the way to His favor.
Overview
This begins the section of covenant blessings, conditioned on obedience. To 'walk in' God's statutes means a whole life ordered by His commands, not mere outward compliance. While the Mosaic covenant tied blessing to obedience, the gospel reveals that such obedience flows from grace, and Christ fulfills the law's righteous demands for His people.
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Cross-references · 12
- Isa 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
- Deut 11:13–15So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deut 28:1–14“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Isa 48:18–19If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
- Ps 81:12–16So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- Matt 7:24–25Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Judg 2:1–2Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
- Rom 2:7–10To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
- Deut 7:12If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.
- Lev 18:4–5You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
- Josh 23:14–15Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
- Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
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