Deuteronomy 11:1

Obedience and Discipline

1 You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. ¹

Deuteronomy 11:1 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 11:1

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God
Because he is so great and glorious in himself, and because he had done such great and good things for them, the Israelites, particularly in the multiplication of them, the last thing mentioned:

and keep his charge;
whatsoever the Lord had charged them to observe, even what follow:

and his statutes and his judgments, and his commandments, alway;
all his laws, ceremonial, judicial, and moral; and that constantly and continually, all the days of their lives.

Deuteronomy 11:1 In-Context

1 You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

2 Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;

3 the signs and works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;

4 what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;

5 what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place;

Cross References

• 1. (Deuteronomy 4:1–14)