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Deuteronomy 6

Moses gives Israel the Shema: the LORD is one, and they are to love him with all their heart, soul and might. These words are to be taught to children, talked about at home and on the road, and remembered when prosperity makes it easy to forget God.

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Key verses

  • Verse 4There is one God, the LORD.
  • Verse 5Love God with everything you are.
  • Verse 7Faith is taught at home, in ordinary conversation.

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 6:1Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:2Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:3Ask

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:SelectedDeuteronomy 6:4Ask

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:5Ask

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:SelectedDeuteronomy 6:6Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:7Ask

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:8Ask

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:9Ask

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,SelectedDeuteronomy 6:10Ask

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;SelectedDeuteronomy 6:11Ask

Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:12Ask

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:13Ask

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;SelectedDeuteronomy 6:14Ask

(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.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:15Ask

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:16Ask

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:17Ask

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,SelectedDeuteronomy 6:18Ask

To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:19Ask

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?SelectedDeuteronomy 6:20Ask

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 6:21Ask

And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:SelectedDeuteronomy 6:22Ask

And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:23Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:24Ask

And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.SelectedDeuteronomy 6:25Ask

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