Deuteronomy 4:6

And ye shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

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In The King James Version

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

In Context

5Behold, I have shown you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that ye should do so in the land into which ye go to inherit it.

7For what manner of nation is so great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God is in all things in whatsoever we may call upon him?

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Cross References

Job 28:28And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom; 1 And to abstain from evil is understanding.

Psalms 19:8Some glory in chariots, and some in horses: 1 But we will glory in the name of the Lord our God. 1

Proverbs 1:5For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, 1 And the man of understanding will gain direction; 1

Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways; 1 But the folly of fools leads astray. 1

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41

Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now 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. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →

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