Deuteronomy - 7:11



11 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 7:11.

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Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
11Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.
So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.
Therefore, keep the precepts and ceremonies as well as the judgments, which I command to you this day, so that you may do them.
Custodias ergo praecepta, et statuta, et judicia quae ego praecipio tibi hodie, ut ea facias.

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Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,.... The laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, urged thereunto both by promises and threatenings, in hopes of reward, and through fear of punishment:
which I command thee this day, to do them; in the name of the Lord, and by his authority; by virtue of which he made a new declaration of them to put them in mind of them in order to observe them.

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day--In the covenant into which God entered with Israel, He promised to bestow upon them a variety of blessings so long as they continued obedient to Him as their heavenly King. He pledged His veracity that His infinite perfections would be exerted for this purpose, as well as for delivering them from every evil to which, as a people, they would be exposed. That people accordingly were truly happy as a nation, and found every promise which the faithful God made to them amply fulfilled, so long as they adhered to that obedience which was required of them. See a beautiful illustration of this in Psalm 144:12-15.

This energy of the grace and holiness of the faithful covenant God was a powerful admonition to keep the divine commandments.

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