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that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son`s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
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Fear as Reverent Awe
Commentators explain that the "fear of the LORD" is not slavish terror but a "holy awe" (Spurgeon) or "reverential affection" (Gill). This heart-level reverence is the true motive and "most powerful principle" for genuine obedience, as God is concerned with the spirit behind our actions, not just the actions themselves.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Baptist
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That you might fear the Lord your God Being taught to know the greatness of his being, and the nature of his mind an…
Presbyterian
In this and similar passages, the —commandments' seem to denote the moral law, the —statutes' the ceremonial law, and the —judgments' the law by wh…
