Deuteronomy 28:1
If you listen carefully to the voice of Yahweh your God so as to keep all his commandments that I am commanding you today, Yahweh your God will set you above all the other nations of the earth.
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Exodus 23:22If you indeed obey his voice and do everything that I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Deuteronomy 7:12If you listen to these decrees, and keep and do them, it will happen that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the faithfulness that he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 11:13It will happen, if you will listen diligently to my commandments that I command you today, to love Yahweh your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 26:18Today Yahweh has declared that you are a people who are his own possession, as he had promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,
Psalms 91:14Because he is devoted to me, I will rescue him. 1 I will protect him because he is loyal to me. 1
Psalms 111:10To honor Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; 1 those who carry out his instructions have good understanding. 1 His praise endures forever.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:1
This chapter is a very large exposition of two words in the foregoing chapter, the blessing and the curse. Those were pronounced blessed in general that were obedient, and those cursed that were disobedient; but, because generals are not so affecting, Moses here descends to particulars, and describes the blessing and the curse, not in their fountains (these are out of sight, and therefore the most considerable, yet least considered, the favour of God the spring of all the blessings, and the wrath of God the spring… Read the whole commentary →