Deuteronomy 5:29

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Summary

O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

O that there

Keep all

That it might

General references

Bible References

O that there

“Would that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would discern their future!

“Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your

well-being would have been like a river,

And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate.”

They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—

See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.

Keep all

“You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

How blessed are those who keep justice,

Who practice righteousness at all times!

Aleph.
How blessed are those whose way is

blameless,

Who walk in the law of the Lord.

But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

That it might

‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord your God gives you.

So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

You shall not eat it, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the Lord.

You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.

you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek security for you, that it may be well with you?

Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,
For they will eat the fruit of their actions.

Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house
With spacious upper rooms,
And cut out its windows,

Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’

so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

General references

All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do!” And Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and we will obey His voice.”

You have

ordained Your precepts,

That we should keep them diligently.

that the Lord your God may tell us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do.”