King James VersionDeuteronomy6

Deuteronomy

1 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: 2 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. 3 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. 4 Hear, O Is­rael: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I com­mand thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 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. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets be­tween thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 10 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, 11 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; 12 Then be­ware lest thou for­get the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. 14 Ye shall not go af­ter oth­er gods, of the gods of the peo­ple which are round about you; 15 (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. 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempt­ed him in Mas­sah. 17 Ye shall dili­gent­ly keep the com­mand­ments of the LORD your God, and his tes­ti­monies, and his statutes, which he hath com­mand­ed thee. 18 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, 19 To cast out all thine en­e­mies from be­fore thee, as the LORD hath spo­ken. 20 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? 21 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: 22 And the LORD shewed signs and won­ders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house­hold, be­fore our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fa­thers. 24 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. 25 And it shall be our righ­teous­ness, if we ob­serve to do all these com­mand­ments be­fore the LORD our God, as he hath com­mand­ed us.