Deuteronomy 32:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

Requite

2 Corinthians 5:14

Titus 2:11

O foolish

Galatians 3:1

Thy father

Hath bought

Acts 20:28

1 Corinthians 6:20

2 Peter 2:1

Bible References

Requite

For Christ's love for us motivates us, because we have concluded that, [since] one person [i.e., Christ] died for all people, so then all people have died. [Note: This may mean simply that Christ died for all people, who were dead in their sins].

For God's unearned favor has appeared, bringing salvation to all people [i.e., in the coming of Christ].

O foolish

You foolish people [of the churches] of Galatia [Note: This was a province in present-day Turkey], who tricked you? Was not Jesus Christ graphically portrayed before you as being put to death on a cross?

Thy father

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, Father, I have sinned against [the God of] heaven and against you.

You people are doing what your father does." They said to Him, "We were not born illegitimately; the only Father we have is God."

For you did not receive the Holy Spirit, to enslave you again to fear, [Note: Some translators take "Holy Spirit" here to be "spirit," making the verse say "you did not receive the spirit of slavery"], but you received the Holy Spirit [who produces] sonship, so we can call out, "Abba", [which means] "Father."

For all of you are children of God through your faith in Christ Jesus [as God's only Son].

And because you are [His] children, God sent the Holy Spirit of His Son into our hearts, to call out, "Abba," [which means] "Father."

Look at how much love the Father has shown to us [Christians], that we should be called His children! But, that is what we [really] are! The reason the people of the world do not know who we are is because they do not know who God [really] is.

Hath bought

So, pay close attention to your [own] lives, and to all [members] of the flock [i.e., the congregation] of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers [i.e., elders, shepherds or pastors]. Provide [spiritual] food for the church of the Lord which He purchased by [shedding] His own blood.

for you were bought [by God] for a price. So, honor God with your [physical] body.

But just as there were false prophets among the people before, there will also be false teachers among you [Christians]. They will privately teach harmful doctrines that destroy people [spiritually], by even denying [that Jesus is] the Master, [and thereby] destroying themselves quickly.