Deuteronomy 12:32Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.
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Didache

1st centuryChurch Father

Abhor all forms of hypocrisy and anything that offends the Lord. Uphold the commandments of the Lord with love, treasuring what has been given to you without alteration. Acknowledge your transgressions within the church and approach your prayers with a clean conscience.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Deut 4:2You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Rev 22:18For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book.
Rev 22:19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book.
Josh 1:7Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost.
Prov 30:6Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a liar:
Deut 13:18When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.
Matt 28:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.