If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- BSB If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Isa 1:19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
- Deut 11:13–15And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deut 28:1–14And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
- Isa 48:18–19O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
- Ps 81:12–16So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Matt 7:24–25Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
- Judg 2:1–2And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
- Rom 2:7–10To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
- Deut 7:12Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
- Lev 18:4–5Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
- Josh 23:14–15And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
- Rev 22:14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
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