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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Deuteronomy 6:25

We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Obedience;   Righteousness;   Works;   The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Teaching;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Family;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Teach, Teacher;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Child;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Discipline;   Fear;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Education;   Ethics;   Righteousness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood of Jesus;   Justification (2);   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Child;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Righteousness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandment;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.'
Update Bible Version
And it shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all [of] this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
English Revised Version
And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
New Century Version
The right thing for us to do is this: Obey all these rules in the presence of the Lord our God, as he has commanded."
Webster's Bible Translation
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
World English Bible
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
Amplified Bible
"It will be [considered] righteousness for us [that is, right standing with God] if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the LORD our God—just as He has commanded us.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he schal be merciful to vs, if we schulen do and kepe alle hise heestis, bifor oure Lord God, as he comaundide to vs.
Young's Literal Translation
and righteousness it is for us, when we observe to do all this command before Jehovah our God, as He hath commanded us.
Berean Standard Bible
And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God just as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness."
American Standard Version
And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us.
Bible in Basic English
And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, this shalbe our righteousnesse before the Lorde our God, if we take heede, & kepe all these commaundementes, as he hath commaunded vs.
Complete Jewish Bible
It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to obey all these mitzvot before Adonai our God, just as he ordered us to do.'"
Darby Translation
And it shall be our righteousness if we take heed to do all these commandments before Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us.
Easy-to-Read Version
If we carefully obey the whole law, exactly as the Lord our God told us to, he will say that we have done a very good thing.'
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as He hath commanded us.'
King James Version (1611)
And it shall be our righteousnes, if we obserue to doe all these Commandements, before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded vs.
New Life Bible
We will be right with the Lord our God if we are careful to obey all of the Law before Him, just as He told us.
New Revised Standard
If we diligently observe this entire commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, we will be in the right."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and righteousness, shall it he to us, - when we take heed to do all this commandment, before Yahweh our God, as he commanded us.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer, this shall be our righteousnes before the Lorde our God, if we take heede to keepe all these commandements, as he hath commanded vs.
George Lamsa Translation
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe and do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.
Good News Translation
If we faithfully obey everything that God has commanded us, he will be pleased with us.'
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Revised Standard Version
And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.'
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.
Christian Standard Bible®
Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’
Hebrew Names Version
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this mitzvah before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.
King James Version
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Lexham English Bible
And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe and do all of this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.'
Literal Translation
And it shall be righteousness for us when we take heed to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as He has commanded us.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And it shall be righteousnes vnto vs before the LORDE oure God, yf we kepe and do all these commaundementes, as he hath commaunded vs.
THE MESSAGE
"It will be a set-right and put-together life for us if we make sure that we do this entire commandment in the Presence of God , our God, just as he commanded us to do."
New American Standard Bible
"And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to follow all this commandment before the LORD our God, just as He commanded us.
New King James Version
Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.'
New Living Translation
For we will be counted as righteous when we obey all the commands the Lord our God has given us.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the LORD our God, just as He commanded us.
Legacy Standard Bible
And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, just as He commanded us.

Contextual Overview

17 Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe. 18 Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors, 19 and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the Lord said. 20 When your children ask you later on, "What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?" 21 you must say to them, "We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way. 22 And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes. 23 He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors. 24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day. 25 We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 24:13, Leviticus 18:5, Psalms 106:30, Psalms 106:31, Psalms 119:6, Proverbs 12:28, Ezekiel 20:11, Luke 10:28, Luke 10:29, Romans 10:3, Romans 10:5, Romans 10:6, Galatians 3:12, James 2:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:9 - tree of knowledge Exodus 34:11 - Observe Deuteronomy 5:32 - observe

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall be our righteousness,.... Or a mercy, benefit, and blessing to us; or this shall be reckoned our righteousness, and that by which we shall be justified:

if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us; in order to have such a justifying righteousness, a man must keep all the commandments of God, not one excepted; and that perfectly, without the least breach of them in thought, word, or deed; and that before the Lord, in his sight, not as it may appear to a man himself, or to others, but as it appears to God, who sees the heart, and weighs all actions; and a man must keep them in the manner the Lord has commanded, even with all his heart, soul, and strength, as in Deuteronomy 6:5 and this is not possible for a sinful man to do; and therefore righteousness cannot be by the law. Only Christ could thus keep all the commandments of God, and his obedience is our righteousness; and he only is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes, and to him we must seek for it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;

(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and

(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.

The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.

Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 6:25. It shall be our righteousness — The evidence that we are under the influence of the fear and love of God. Moses does not say that this righteousness could be wrought without the influence of God's mercy, nor does he say that they should purchase heaven by it: but, God required them to be conformed to his will in all things, that they might be holy in heart, and righteous in every part of their moral conduct.

1. ON a very important subject in this chapter, it may be necessary to make some farther observations.

A most injurious and destructive maxim has lately been advanced by a few individuals, which it is to be hoped is disowned by the class of Christians to which they belong, though the authors affect to be thought Christians, and rational ones, too; the sum of the maxim is this: "Children ought not to be taught religion for fear of having their minds biased to some particular creed, but they should be left to themselves till they are capable of making a choice, and choose to make one." This maxim is in flat opposition to the command of God, and those who teach it show how little they are affected by the religion they profess. If they felt it to be good for any thing, they would certainly wish their children to possess it; but they do not teach religion to their children, because they feel it to be of no use to themselves. Now the Christian religion properly applied saves the soul, and fills the heart with love to God and man; for the love of God is shed abroad in the heart of a genuine believer, by the Holy Ghost given to him. These persons have no such love, because they have not the religion that inspires it; and the spurious religion which admits of the maxim above mentioned, is not the religion of God, and consequently better untaught than taught. But what can be said to those parents who, possessing a better faith, equally neglect the instruction of their children in the things of God! They are highly criminal; and if their children perish through neglect, which is very probable, what a dreadful account must they give in the great day! PARENTS! hear what the Lord saith unto you: Ye shall diligently teach your children that there is one Lord, Jehovah, Elohim; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: and that they must love him with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their might. And as children are heedless, apt to forget, liable to be carried away by sensible things, repeat and re-repeat the instruction, and add line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, carefully studying time, place, and circumstances, that your labour be not in vain: show it in its amiableness, excite attention by exciting interest; show how good, how useful, how blessed, how ennobling, how glorious it is. Whet these things on their hearts till the keenest edge is raised on the strongest desire, till they can say, "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth I desire besides thee!"

Deuteronomy 4:9, and "Genesis 18:32", and Genesis 18:32- : at the end.

2. Without offence to any, I hope, a few words more may be said on the nature of an oath, in addition to the note, Deuteronomy 6:13. The matter is important, and perhaps not well understood by many.

The making an appeal to the Supreme Being, and calling him to witness and record, constitutes the spirit and essence of an oath. It is no matter in what form this appeal is made, whether by putting the hand under the thigh, as among the patriarchs; by the water of the Ganges, as among the Hindoos; on a surat or chapter of the Koran, as among the Mohammedans; on a Hebrew Pentateuch, as among the Jews; on the form of the cross, as among the Roman Catholics; kissing the New Testament, as among Protestants in general; or holding up the hand, and making affirmation, as among the people called Quakers; still the oath is the same, for the appeal is made to God. On this ground (and this is the true ground), the holding up of the hand in a court of justice, is as perfect, as substantial, and as formal an oath, as kissing the New Testament. Why then so many objections against taking an oath in a court of justice by any one particular form, when the same thing is done in spirit, essence, and substance, when God is called to witness and record, though the form be different? When God says, Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt swear by his name, he says, in effect, Thou shalt have no god besides me; thou shalt consider me the fountain of truth, the rewarder of righteousness, and the punisher of perfidy and wickedness. Swear by my name - bind thyself to me; take me for witness to all thy actions; and act in all things as having me continually before thine eyes, and knowing that for every act and word thou shalt give account to me in the day of judgment. Our Lord's command, Swear not at all, can never relate to an oath in a civil cause, taken according to the definition above given: profane and common swearing, with all light, irreverent oaths and imprecations, and all such oaths as are not required by the civil magistrate, in cases where the Lord is supposed to be witness, are certainly intended in our blessed Lord's prohibition. Deuteronomy 4:26.


 
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