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

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Bible References

O that there

Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!

Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then would thy peace have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;

And I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing which I hate!

And they come unto thee as a people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they do them not; for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their dishonest gain.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;

We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as it were beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

Keep all

Thou shalt love then Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments continually.

Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

ALEPH. Blessed are the perfect in the way, who walk in the law of Jehovah.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city.

That it might

Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.

And thou shalt hear, Israel, and take heed to do them; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

Thine eye shall not spare him; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.

thou shalt in any case let the dam go, and thou mayest take the young to thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

And Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

Moreover, by them is thy servant enlightened; in keeping them there is great reward.

Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

that saith, I will build me a wide house, and spacious upper chambers; and he cutteth out for himself windows; and it is wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth.

But he that fixes his view on the perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in it, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his doing.

General references

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

And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our God will we serve, and to his voice will we hearken.

Thou hast enjoined thy precepts, to be kept diligently.

that Jehovah thy God may shew us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do.