Deuteronômio 6

¹ These now are the commandements, ordinances, and lawes, which the Lorde your God commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye go to possesse it:

² That thou mayestA reverent face and love for God is the first beginning to keeping God's commandments.fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

³ Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee,Which has an abundance of all things needed for man's life.in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

⁴ Heare, O Israel, The Lord our God is Lord onely,

⁵ And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.

⁶ And these wordes which I commaund thee this day, shalbe in thine heart.

⁷ And thou shaltSome read, «You shall whet them upon your children»: that is, that they may imprint them more deeply in their memory.teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {(teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen)}

⁸ And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.

⁹ And thou shalt write them upon theThat when you enter in you may remember them.posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

¹⁰ And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue to thee, with great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not,

¹¹ And houses full of all maner of goods which thou filledst not, and welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards & oliue trees which thou plantedst not, and when thou hast eaten and art full,

¹² Do not let wealth and ease cause you to forget God's mercies, by which you were delivered out of misery.[Then] beware lest thou shouldest forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {(bondage: Heb. bondmen or, servants)}

¹³ Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shaltWe must fear God, serve him only and confess his Name, which is done by swearing lawfully.swear by his name.

¹⁴ Ye shall not walke after other gods, after any of the gods of the people which are round about you,

¹⁵ (For the Lorde thy God is a ielous God among you:) least the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from the face of the earth.

¹⁶ Ye shall notBy doubting his power, refusing lawful means, and abusing his graces.tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.

¹⁷ But ye shal keepe diligently the commandements of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,

¹⁸ And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in theHere he condemns all of man's good intentions.sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to thy fathers,

¹⁹ To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lord hath sayd.

²⁰ [And] whenGod not only requires that we serve him all our lives, but also that we see that our posterity sets forth his glory.thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

²¹ Then shalt thou say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt: but the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hand.

²² And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his housholde, before our eyes,

²³ And heNothing should move us more to true obedience than the great benefits which we have received from God.brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

²⁴ Therefore the Lord hath commanded vs, to doe all these ordinances, and to feare the Lord our God, that it may goe euer well with vs, and that he may preserue vs aliue as at this present.

²⁵ And it shall be ourBecause no one can fully obey the law, we must turn to Christ to be justified by faith.righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.