Deuteronomy 8:6

6 So it's paramount that you keep the commandments of God, your God, walk down the roads he shows you and reverently respect 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 blister those forty years.

5 You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child.

6 So it's paramount that you keep the commandments of God, your God, walk down the roads he shows you and reverently respect him.

7 God is about to bring you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys.

8 It's a land of wheat and barley, of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey.