6Deuteronomy 6

CHAP. VI. / 1 The end of the Law is obedience. 3 An exhortation thereto.

1Now these are the Commaundements, the Statutes, & the Iudgements, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye goe to possesse it:Select Deuteronomy 6:1

2That thou mightest feare the Lord thy God, to keepe all his Statutes, and his Commandements which I command thee; thou, and thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne, all the dayes of thy life: and that thy dayes may be prolonged.Select Deuteronomy 6:2

3Heare therefore, O Israel, and obserue to do it, that it may be wel with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milke and hony.Select Deuteronomy 6:3

4Heare, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.Select Deuteronomy 6:4

5And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.Select Deuteronomy 6:5

6And these words which I command thee this day, shall bee in thine heart.Select Deuteronomy 6:6

7And thou shalt teach them diligently vnto thy children, and shalt talke of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp.Select Deuteronomy 6:7

8And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.Select Deuteronomy 6:8

9And thou shalt write them vpon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.Select Deuteronomy 6:9

10And it shall be when the Lord thy God shall haue brought thee into the land which hee sware vnto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Iacob to giue thee, great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,Select Deuteronomy 6:10

11And houses full of all good things which thou filledst not, and welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards and oliue trees which thou plantedst not, when thou shalt haue eaten and be full,Select Deuteronomy 6:11

12Then beware lest thou forget the Lord which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.Select Deuteronomy 6:12

13Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and serue him, & shalt sweare by his Name.Select Deuteronomy 6:13

14Yee shall not goe after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you:Select Deuteronomy 6:14

15(For the Lord thy God is a ielous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God bee kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.Select Deuteronomy 6:15

16Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as yee tempted him in Massah.Select Deuteronomy 6:16

17You shall diligently keepe the Commandements of the Lord your God, and his Testimonies, and his Statutes, which he hath commanded thee.Select Deuteronomy 6:17

18And thou shalt doe that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest goe in, and possesse the good land which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers:Select Deuteronomy 6:18

19To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.Select Deuteronomy 6:19

20And when thy sonne asketh thee in time to come, saying, What meane the Testimonies, & the Statutes, and the Iudgements, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?Select Deuteronomy 6:20

21Then thou shalt say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mighty hand.Select Deuteronomy 6:21

22And the Lord shewed signes and wonders, great and sore vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his houshold, before our eyes:Select Deuteronomy 6:22

23And hee brought vs out from thence, that hee might bring vs in, to giue vs the land which hee sware vnto our fathers.Select Deuteronomy 6:23

24And the Lord commanded vs to doe all these Statutes, to feare the Lord our God, for our good alwayes, that he might preserue vs aliue, as it is at this day.Select Deuteronomy 6:24

25And it shall be our righteousnes, if we obserue to doe all these Commandements, before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded vs.Select Deuteronomy 6:25