Deuteronomy 6:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That thou mightest 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.

And thy son

Deuteronomy 6:7

Genesis 18:19

Psalm 78:4

Thy days

1 Peter 3:10

General references

Bible References

And thy son

Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

Thy days

Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long.

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

General references

You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

And Job came to his end, old and full of days.

For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.