Deuteronomy 8:6

6 Obey the commands of the Lord your God, living as he has commanded you and respecting 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 During these forty years, your clothes did not wear out, and your feet did not swell.

5 Know in your heart that the Lord your God corrects you as a parent corrects a child.

6 Obey the commands of the Lord your God, living as he has commanded you and respecting him.

7 The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with rivers and pools of water, with springs that flow in the valleys and hills,

8 a land that has wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil, and honey.