Deuteronomy 8:11

11 Be careful not to forget the Lord your God so that you fail to obey his commands, laws, and rules that I am giving to you today.

Deuteronomy 8:11 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 8:11

Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God
The Father of mercies and fountain of goodness, the author and donor of every good and perfect gift. Plenty is apt to induce a forgetfulness of God, when on the contrary one would think it should keep him in continual remembrance, and engage to daily thankfulness to him:

in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes,
which I command thee this day;
gave a repetition of, and in the name of God afresh enjoined them, even laws moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which, when not observed, God is forgotten.

Deuteronomy 8:11 In-Context

9 It is a land where you will have plenty of food, where you will have everything you need, where the rocks are iron, and where you can dig copper out of the hills.

10 When you have all you want to eat, then praise the Lord your God for giving you a good land.

11 Be careful not to forget the Lord your God so that you fail to obey his commands, laws, and rules that I am giving to you today.

12 When you eat all you want and build nice houses and live in them,

13 when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase, when you have more of everything,