Deuteronomy 10:12

Circumcise Your Heart

12 "And now, Israel, 1what does the LORD your God require of you, but 2to fear the LORD your God, 3to walk in all his ways, 4to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 10:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee,
&c.] For all these favours bestowed upon them, the forgiveness of their sins, and a fresh intimation of their possession of the land of Canaan, and the renewal of the promise of it made to their fathers:

but to fear the Lord thy God;
to fear him with a filial fear, to fear him and his goodness, and him for his goodness sake, and particularly for his pardoning grace and mercy vouchsafed to them; see ( Psalms 130:4 ) ,

to walk in all his ways;
prescribed and directed to by him, every path of duty, whether moral, ceremonial, or judicial:

and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul;
for that is the best service which springs from love, and love constrains unto, and which is hearty and sincere, as that is, and is performed in the best manner such are capable of.

Deuteronomy 10:12 In-Context

10 "I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was unwilling to destroy you.
11 And the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.'
12 "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good?
14 Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.

Cross References 4

  • 1. [Micah 6:8]
  • 2. See Deuteronomy 6:2, 13
  • 3. See Deuteronomy 5:33
  • 4. See Deuteronomy 6:5
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