Deuteronomy 8:6

6 Obey the commands of the LORD your God. Follow his directions, and fear him.

Deuteronomy 8:6 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 8:6

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God,
&c.] Not only because they are the commands of God, and of a covenant God and Father, which are reasons sufficient for the observance of them; but because the Lord had dealt so bountifully with them, in providing food and raiment for them in the wilderness, which always continued with them; and because, when he afflicted them, it was a fatherly chastisement, with great tenderness and compassion, and for their good; all which laid them under obligations to keep the commands of God, whatsoever he had enjoined them, whether of the moral, ceremonial, or judicial kind:

to walk in his ways, and to fear him;
to walk in the ways he directed, to be under an awe of his majesty, a fear of offending him, and a reverential affection for him, such as children have to a father.

Deuteronomy 8:6 In-Context

4 Your clothes didn't wear out, and your feet didn't swell these past 40 years.

5 Learn this lesson by heart: The LORD your God was disciplining you as parents discipline their children.

6 Obey the commands of the LORD your God. Follow his directions, and fear him.

7 The LORD your God is bringing you into a good land. It is a land with rivers that don't dry up. There are springs and underground streams flowing through the valleys and hills.

8 The land has wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates. The land has honey and olive trees for olive oil.