Deuteronomy 6
Lutheran reading notes
In Deuteronomy chapter 6, the story continues to develop the theme of renewal of the covenant and preparation to enter the promised land. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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Now these {are} the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do {them} in the land whither ye go to possess it: {go: Heb. pass over}
Deuteronomy 6:1 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy 6:2 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do {it}; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 6:3 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God {is} one LORD:
Deuteronomy 6:4 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 6:5 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Deuteronomy 6:6 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen}
Deuteronomy 6:7 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Deuteronomy 6:8 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy 6:9 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Deuteronomy 6:10 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And houses full of all good {things}, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
Deuteronomy 6:11 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Then} beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {bondage: Heb. bondmen or, servants}
Deuteronomy 6:12 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 6:13 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which {are} round about you;
Deuteronomy 6:14 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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(For the LORD thy God {is} a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 6:15 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted {him} in Massah.
Deuteronomy 6:16 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 6:17 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And thou shalt do {that which is} right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Deuteronomy 6:18 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
Deuteronomy 6:19 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{And} when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What {mean} the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? {in...: Heb. to morrow}
Deuteronomy 6:20 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
Deuteronomy 6:21 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: {sore: Heb. evil}
Deuteronomy 6:22 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
Deuteronomy 6:23 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as {it is} at this day.
Deuteronomy 6:24 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Deuteronomy 6:25 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.