1 God humbleth the Israelites to try what they have in their heart. 5 God chastiseth them as his children. 14 The heart ought not to be proud of God’s benefits. 19 The forgetfulness of God’s benefits causeth destruction.

Ye shall keep all the commandments which I command thee this day, for [a]to do them: that ye may live, and be multiplied, and go in, and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 8:1 Showing that it is not enough to hear the word, except we express it by example of life.

16 In that I command thee this day, [a]to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandment, and his ordinances, and his laws, that thou mayest [b]live, and be multiplied, and that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 30:16 So that to love and obey God, is only life and felicity.
  2. Deuteronomy 30:16 He addeth these promises to signify that it is for our profit that we love him, and not for his.

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