Deuteronomy 28:1
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
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Exodus 23:22But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
Deuteronomy 7:12It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 11:13It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 26:18The LORD has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
Psalms 91:14“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Psalms 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. 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 →