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Deuteronomy 6:10-25
FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD - Sep 11, 2022 -
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD - Sep 10, 2022 -
Deuteronomy 6:10-25
OBEYING THE LAW WILL BE OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS - Sep 06, 2020 -
Deuteronomy 6:10-25
THAT WILL BE OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS - Mar 11, 2017 -
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD - Mar 10, 2017 -
Deuteronomy 6:1-25
LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART - Jan 01, 2000
LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR BEING
Passage:
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
Key verse: 4,5
NIV
Love the Lord Your God
6 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear(A) the Lord your God as long as you live(B) by keeping all his decrees and commands(C) that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.(D) 3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey(E) so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly(F) in a land flowing with milk and honey,(G) just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised(H) you.
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a](I) 5 Love(J) the Lord your God with all your heart(K) and with all your soul and with all your strength.(L) 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.(M) 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.(N) 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(O) 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.(P)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 6:4 Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone
Cross references
- Deuteronomy 6:2 : S Ex 20:20; S 1Sa 12:24
- Deuteronomy 6:2 : Dt 4:9
- Deuteronomy 6:2 : S Ge 26:5
- Deuteronomy 6:2 : S Ex 20:12
- Deuteronomy 6:3 : S Ex 19:5
- Deuteronomy 6:3 : Ge 15:5; Dt 5:33
- Deuteronomy 6:3 : S Ex 3:8; Dt 32:13-14
- Deuteronomy 6:3 : Ex 13:5
- Deuteronomy 6:4 : Dt 4:35, 39; Ne 9:6; Ps 86:10; Isa 44:6; Zec 14:9; Mk 12:29*; Jn 10:30; 1Co 8:4; Eph 4:6; Jas 2:19
- Deuteronomy 6:5 : Dt 11:1, 22; Mt 22:37*; Mk 12:30*; Lk 10:27*
- Deuteronomy 6:5 : 1Sa 12:24
- Deuteronomy 6:5 : Dt 4:29; 10:12; Jos 22:5
- Deuteronomy 6:6 : ver 8; Dt 11:18; 30:14; 32:46; Ps 26:2; 37:31; 40:8; 119:11; Pr 3:3; Isa 51:7; Jer 17:1; 31:33; Eze 40:4
- Deuteronomy 6:7 : Dt 4:9; 11:19; Pr 22:6; Eph 6:4
- Deuteronomy 6:8 : S ver 6; S Ex 13:9; Mt 23:5
- Deuteronomy 6:9 : Dt 11:20
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ESV
The Greatest Commandment
6 “Now this is (A)the commandment—the statutes and the rules[a]—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2 that (B)you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and (C)that your days may be long. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, (D)as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4 “Hear, O Israel: (E)The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[b] 5 You (F)shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And (G)these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 (H)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 (I)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 (J)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Deuteronomy 6:1 Or just decrees; also verse 20
- Deuteronomy 6:4 Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone
Cross references
- Deuteronomy 6:1 : ch. 4:1; 5:31; 12:1
- Deuteronomy 6:2 : ch. 5:29; 10:12, 20; 13:4; Ps. 128:1; Eccles. 12:13
- Deuteronomy 6:2 : See ch. 4:40
- Deuteronomy 6:3 : Gen. 15:5; 22:17; 26:4; 28:14; Ex. 32:13
- Deuteronomy 6:4 : Cited Mark 12:29; [Isa. 42:8; Zech. 14:9; John 17:3; 1 Cor. 8:4, 6]
- Deuteronomy 6:5 : Cited Matt. 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27; [2 Kgs. 23:25]
- Deuteronomy 6:6 : ch. 11:18; 32:46; Ps. 37:31; Isa. 51:7; Jer. 31:33
- Deuteronomy 6:7 : See ch. 4:9
- Deuteronomy 6:8 : ch. 11:18; Prov. 3:3; 6:21; 7:3; See Ex. 13:9
- Deuteronomy 6:9 : ch. 11:20; [Isa. 57:8]
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1. Love God with all that you are (1-5)
Fearing God, keeping his commands and carefully obeying him are all ways of loving God. 'Hear' ('shema' in Hebrew) is a sacred verse to Jews called The Shema. God is one. God is the LORD who brought them out of Egypt. It is this God whom his people are to love with all their heart, soul and strength. Jesus said this is the most important commandment (Mk 12:29-3
). Why? Because if we don't love God, we naturally give our hearts to love something or someone else.
2. Keep God's words close to your heart (6-9)
Many Jewish homes have verses 4-9 in a small doorframe box called a mezuzah (9). It's a reminder to keep God's words nearby. We are to talk about God's word anywhere, any time. Why? Because we are forgetful, and we are easily distracted. Also, meditating on and discussing God's word can and should be our joy and inspiration for living.
Prayer: Lord, I love you. Help me to love you more.
One Word: Love God with my all
