Deuteronomy 32:47
For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
48And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:
Cross References
Leviticus 18:5Keep my laws and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 30:16That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:20And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.
Proverbs 3:22And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.
Proverbs 4:22For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:45-52
44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to… Read the whole commentary →