Deuteronomy 6:17

Ye shall, keep, the commandments of Yahweh your God and his testimonies and his statutes which he hath commanded thee;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

In Context

16Ye shall not put Yahweh your God to the proof,—as ye put him to the proof in Massah [that is, "The place of proving"].

18so shalt thou do what is right and what is pleasing in the eyes of Yahweh,—that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest enter in and possess the good land, which Yahweh sware unto thy fathers;

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Cross References

Exodus 15:26And he said: If thou, wilt indeed hearken, to the voice of Yahweh thy God, And the thing that is right in his eyes, thou wilt do, And so give ear to his commandments, And keep all his statutes, None of the sicknesses which I laid on the Egyptians, will I lay upon thee, For, I, am Yahweh, thy physician.

Deuteronomy 5:29Oh that this their heart might remain in them to revere me, and to keep all my commandments all the days,—that it might be well with them and with their sons unto times age-abiding.

Deuteronomy 6:1This, then is the commandment—[namely] the statutes and the regulations, which Yahweh your God hath commanded to teach you,—that ye may do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it:

Deuteronomy 11:22For if ye do, indeed keep, all this commandment which I am commanding you to do it,—to love Yahweh your God, to Walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him,

Psalms 119:2How happy they who observe his testimonies, with a whole heart, they seek him.

1 Corinthians 15:58So, then, my beloved brethren,—become ye, steadfast, immovable, superabounding in the work of the Lord, at all times; knowing that, your toil, is not in vain in the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 6:5-17

Cautions and Precepts. ( b. c. 1451.) 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord : 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine… Read the whole commentary →

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