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How Nave’s arranged it

• A MOTIVE TO FAITHFULNESSExodus 20:6Exodus 20:12Leviticus 25:18Leviticus 25:19Leviticus 26:3–45Deuteronomy 4:40Deuteronomy 6:3Deuteronomy 6:18Deuteronomy 11:13–16Deuteronomy 11:18–21Deuteronomy 11:26–29Deuteronomy 15:9–11Deuteronomy 22:7Deuteronomy 24:19Deuteronomy 25:15Deuteronomy 27:12–26Joshua 8:33Isaiah 1:16–20Isaiah 3:10Isaiah 40:10
• See Blessing, Contingent upon Obedience
• See Punishments
• See Righteous, Promises to
• See Sin, Separates from God
• See Wicked, Punishment of

The passages, in Bible order (52)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 20:6

   but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 20:61 voice

   “And showing mercy unto thousands - Mark; even those who love God and keep his commandments merit nothing from him, and therefore the salvation and blessedness which these enjoy come from the mercy of God: Showing mercy, etc. What a disproportion between the works of justice and mercy! Justice works to the third or fourth, mercy to thousands of generations! The heathen had maxims like these.

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2. Exodus 20:12

   Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 20:122 voices

   “The formation of the children is then the prerogative of the parents. Therefore honor your father, that he may bless you. Let the godly man honor his father out of gratitude and the ingrate do so on account of fear. Even if the father is poor and does not have plenty of resources to leave to his sons, still he has the heritage of his final blessing with which he may bestow the wealth of sanctification on his descendants. And it is a far greater thing to be blessed than it is to be rich.

   “Honor thy father and thy mother - There is a degree of affectionate respect which is owing to parents, that no person else can properly claim. For a considerable time parents stand as it were in the place of God to their children, and therefore rebellion against their lawful commands has been considered as rebellion against God. This precept therefore prohibits, not only all injurious acts, irreverent and unkind speeches to parents, but enjoins all necessary acts of kindness, filial respect, and obedience.

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3. Leviticus 25:18

   You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

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4. Leviticus 25:19

   Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 25:191 voice

   “The word signifies both outward safety and inward security and confidence of spirit, that they should be quiet both from evil and from the fear of evil.

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5. Leviticus 26:3–45

   If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 26:3–451 voice

   “As “the book of the covenant” Exo. 20:22–23:33 concludes with promises and warnings Exo 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Deut. 27–30 is marked by broader and deeper promises and denunciations having immediate reference not only to outward consequences, but to the spiritual death incurred by transgressing the divine will.

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6. Deuteronomy 4:40

   Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

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7. Deuteronomy 6:3

   Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:31 voice

   “Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it - Literally, Ye shall hear, O Israel, and thou shalt keep to do them. 1. God is to be heard; no obligation without law to found it on, and no law in religion but from God. 2. The commandment must be understood in order to be obeyed. 3. It must be observed - attentively considered, in order to be understood. And,

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8. Deuteronomy 6:18

   Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,

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9. Deuteronomy 11:13–16

   So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:13–161 voice

   “And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day,.... In the name, and by the authority of the Lord, the only lawgiver: to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul; see Deu 10:12. Jarchi interprets this of prayer; but it is not to be restrained to that only, but includes the whole service of God, in all the parts of it, performed from a principle of love to him, and in sincerity and truth.

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10. Deuteronomy 11:18–21

    Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

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11. Deuteronomy 11:26–29

    See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26–291 voice

    “Behold, I set before you - a blessing and a curse - If God had not put it in the power of this people either to obey or disobey; if they had not had a free will, over which they had complete authority, to use it either in the way of willing or nilling; could God, with any propriety, have given such precepts as these, sanctioned with such promises and threatenings? If they were not free agents, they could not be punished for disobedience, nor could they, in any sense of the word, have been rewardable for obedience.

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12. Deuteronomy 15:9–11

    Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 15:9–111 voice

    “Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart - לבבך בליעל lebabecha beliyaal, thy belial heart, that is, thy good-for-nothing or unprofitable heart; See on Deu 13:13 (note). And thine eye be evil - An evil eye signifies a covetous disposition. See the same form of expression used by our Lord in the same sense, Mat 6:23. If thine eye be evil - If thou be a covetous person. Evil eye is by our Lord opposed to single eye, i. e., a person of a liberal, benevolent mind. Covetousness darkens the soul; liberality and benevolence enlighten it.

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13. Deuteronomy 22:7

    You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

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    “Thou shalt - let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee - This passage may be understood literally. If they destroyed both young and old, must not the breed soon fail, and would it not in the end be ill with them; and by thus cutting off the means of their continual support, must not their days be shortened on the land? But we may look for a humane precept in this law.

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14. Deuteronomy 24:19

    If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:192 voices

    “When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field--The grain, pulled up by the roots or cut down with a sickle, was laid in loose sheaves; the fruit of the olive was obtained by striking the branches with long poles; and the grape clusters, severed by a hook, were gathered in the hands of the vintager. Here is a beneficent provision for the poor.

    “When thou cuttest down thine harvest - This is an addition to the law, Lev 19:9; Lev 23:22. The corners of the field, the gleanings, and the forgotten sheaf, were all the property of the poor. This the Hebrews extended to any part of the fruit or produce of a field, which had been forgotten in the time of general ingathering, as appears from the concluding verses of this chapter.

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15. Deuteronomy 25:15

    You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:151 voice

    “Thou shalt not have . . . divers weights--Weights were anciently made of stone and are frequently used still by Eastern shopkeepers and traders, who take them out of the bag and put them in the balance. The man who is not cheated by the trader and his bag of divers weights must be blessed with more acuteness than most of his fellows [ROBERTS].

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16. Deuteronomy 27:12–26

    “When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:12–262 voices

    These curses attendant on disobedience to the divine will, which had been revealed as a law from heaven, be it observed, are given in the form of a declaration, not a wish, as the words should be rendered, "Cursed is he," and not, "Cursed be he."

    “Joseph is here put for both his sons and tribes Manasseh and Ephraim, which are reckoned as one tribe, because Levi is here numbered; but when Levi is omitted, as it is where the division of the land is made, there Manasseh and Ephraim pass for two tribes.

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