Deuteronomy 6:17

Deuteronomy 6:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
• New International Version (NIV)Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.

Context of Deuteronomy 6:17

15for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise, the Lord your God will become angry with you and obliterate you from the face of the earth. 16Do not test the Lord your God as you tested him at Massah. Carefully observe the commands of the Lord your God, the decrees and statutes he has commanded you. 18Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land the Lord your God swore to give your ancestors, 19by driving out all your enemies before you, as the Lord has said.

Deuteronomy 6:17 word by word

שָׁמ֣וֹר תִּשְׁמְר֔וּן אֶת־מִצְוֹ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם וְעֵדֹתָ֥יו וְחֻקָּ֖יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ye shall diligentlyשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: carefulH8104
• keepשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: obeyH8104
• the commandmentsמִצְוָהmitsvâh · commandmentH4687
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• your Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
• and his testimoniesעֵדָה‛êdâh · testimonyH5713
• and his statutesחֹקchôq · statute: decreeH2706
• which he hath commandedצָוָהtsâvâh · to commandH6680

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 6:17

• Deuteronomy 6:1“This is the command — the statutes and ordinances — the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.
• Deuteronomy 11:13“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship him with all your heart and all your soul,
• Exodus 15:26He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in his sight, pay attention to his commands, and keep all his statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”
• Psalms 119:4You have commanded that your precepts be diligently kept.
• 1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
• Hebrews 6:11Now we desire each of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of your hope until the end,
• 2 Peter 1:5For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,
• 2 Peter 3:14Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found without spot or blemish in his sight, at peace.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 6:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Ye shall diligently keep, etc. - On this and the following verse see the note on Deuteronomy 6:3.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-25Verses 10-25 The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger; (1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and (2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors. The former error Moses strives to guard…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-25Verses 17-25 Moses gives charge to keep God's commandments. Negligence will ruin us; but we cannot be saved without diligence. It is our interest, as well as our duty, to be religious. It will be our life. Godliness has the promise of the continuance and comfort of the life that now is, as far as it is for God's glory. It will be our righteousness. It is only through the Mediator we can be righteous before God. The knowledge of the spirituality and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-25Moses here explains how the stipulations in the following sections should be applied and handed on to future generations.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-251-9. Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them ... whither ye go to possess it--The grand design of all the institutions prescribed to Israel was to form a religious people, whose national character should be distinguished by that fear of the Lord their God which would ensure their divine observance of His worship and their steadfast obedience to His will. The…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 6:17

• Blessing
• Diligence
• Obedience
• Watchfulness

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Diligently
• Tempt
• Diligence; Diligent; Diligently
• Frontlets, or Phylacteries

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 6

• 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
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings