24And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
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And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, …
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)Here, I. Moses charges them to keep God’s commandments themselves: You shall diligently keep God’s commandments , Deut. 6:17-19. Note, It requires a great deal of care and pains to keep up religion in the power of it in our hearts and lives. Negligence will ruin us; but we cannot be saved without diligence. To induce them to this, he here shows them, 1. That this would be very acceptable to God: i…
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