Deuteronomy 10:13

13 Keep the Lord's commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.

Deuteronomy 10:13 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 10:13

To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes
Both the ten commands and all others:

which I command thee this day for thy good;
promises of temporal good things, introduction into the land of Canaan, possession of it, and continuance in it, being made to obedience to them.

Deuteronomy 10:13 In-Context

11 Then the Lord said to me, 'Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their fathers.'

12 "And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you except to fear the Lord your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, and to worship the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul?

13 Keep the Lord's commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.

14 The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

15 Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them. He chose their descendants after them-[He chose] you out of all the peoples, as it is today.