THEOSISDeuteronomy 11:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him,
כִּי֩ אִם־שָׁמֹ֨ר תִּשְׁמְר֜וּן אֶת־כָּל־הַמִּצְוָ֣ה הַזֹּ֗את אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָנֹכִ֛י מְצַוֶּ֥ה אֶתְכֶ֖ם לַעֲשֹׂתָ֑הּ לְאַהֲבָ֞ה אֶת־יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֛ם לָלֶ֥כֶת בְּכָל־דְּרָכָ֖יו וּלְדָבְקָה־בֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 11:13If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul:
- Deut 6:17Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.
- Deut 10:20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.
- 1 John 5:2In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments.
- 1 John 5:3For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.
- Matt 22:37Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.
- Gen 2:24Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.
- 2 Tim 4:8As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.