Deuteronomy 11:1

Deuteronomy 11:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
• New International Version (NIV)Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

Context of Deuteronomy 11:1

You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. 2Know 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; 3the signs and works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;

Deuteronomy 11:1 word by word

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֣ מִשְׁמַרְתּ֗וֹ וְחֻקֹּתָ֧יו וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֛יו וּמִצְוֹתָ֖יו כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃Read the interlinear

• You shall therefore loveאָהֵב'âhab 'âhêb · to love: loverH157
• ·אֵת'êth · [Obj.]H853
• the LORDיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• your Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
• and alwaysכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• and alwaysיוֹםyôm · day: alwaysH3117
• keepשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: obeyH8104
• His chargeמִשְׁמֶ֫רֶתmishmereth · chargeH4931
• His statutesחֻקָּהchûqqâh · statuteH2708
• His ordinancesמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
• and His commandmentsמִצְוָהmitsvâh · commandmentH4687

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 11:1

• Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
• Deuteronomy 10:12And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Deuteronomy 30:16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
• Psalms 116:1I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy.
• Leviticus 8:35You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”
• Zechariah 3:7“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.
• Deuteronomy 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
• Deuteronomy 6:1These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
• Psalms 105:45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
• Luke 1:74deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 11:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Thou shalt love the Lord - Because without this there could be no obedience to the Divine testimonies, and no happiness in the soul; for the heart that is destitute of the love of God, is empty of all good, and consequently miserable. See the note on Deuteronomy 10:12.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The great work God wrought for Israel. (1-7) Promises and threatenings. (8-17) Careful study of God's word requisite. (18-25) The blessings and the curse set forth. (26-32) Verses 1-7 Observe the connexion of these two; Thou shalt love the Lord, and keep his charge. Love will work in obedience, and that only is acceptable obedience which flows from a principle of love, 1Jo 5:3. Moses recounts some of the great and terrible works of God which their eyes…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-321. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge--The reason for the frequent repetition of the same or similar counsels is to be traced to the infantine character and state of the church, which required line upon line and precept upon precept. Besides, the Israelites were a headstrong and perverse people, impatient of control, prone to rebellion, and, from their long stay in Egypt, so violently addicted to idolatry, that they ran…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 11:1

• Duty
• Love
• Miracles
• Obedience

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
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• Alway; Always
• Deuteronomy
• Hosea
• Ten Commandments

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings