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Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
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Prosperity as Wisdom
Commentators note that the Hebrew word for "prosper" can also be translated as "act wisely." This suggests that keeping God's covenant is not merely a transaction for blessings, but is itself the wisest course of action. True prosperity, therefore, flows from living according to God's wise instructions.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That ye may prosper - literally, "that ye may act wisely." The connection of the two ideas of wisdom in conduct and prosperity in circumst…
19th Century
Anglican
Keep therefore the words of this covenant ... that ye may prosper. — Compare to Joshua 1:8; Psalms 1:3.
Baptist
This, then, was the covenant made with the nation, that God should be their God and he would prosper them: as he had done, so would he do: he would…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them To do which they were laid under great obligations, through t…
Both past mercies, and new mercies, should be considered by us as motives for obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding hea…
