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to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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Love Is the Source
Commentators highlight that the verse presents a specific order: love, then obedience, then cleaving to God. Love is not just one of three equal commands; it is the essential foundation from which all true obedience flows. As Albert Barnes notes, love is the 'only source of obedience,' making it the primary condition for a life-giving relationship with God.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ignorance of the requirements of the law cannot be pleaded (Deuteronomy 30:10–14); therefore, life and death, good and evil, are solemn…
19th Century
Anglican
He is thy life, and the length of thy days. —This is the Old Testament form of a well-known saying in the New Testament, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That you may love the Lord your God And show it by keeping his commands:
[and] that you may obey …
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