Deuteronomy 6:24
And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.
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Deuteronomy 4:4But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.
Deuteronomy 8:1Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
Deuteronomy 10:12And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,
Psalms 41:2\41:1\Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
Psalms 66:9Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.
Proverbs 22:4The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 6:18-25
A Charge to Israel. ( b. c. 1451.) 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord : that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the… Read the whole commentary →