Deuteronomy 6 · Verse 17

Deuteronomy 6:17

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 6:17, King James Version

Deuteronomy 6:17 in other translations

BSBYou are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.
WEBYou shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
ASVYe shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
YLTye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,
DARBYYe shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
BBEKeep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;
WebsterYe shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

What does Deuteronomy 6:17 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 17 Ye shall diligently keep, etc. - On this and the following verse see the note on Deu 6:3.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:17-25
Moses gives charge to keep God's commandments. Negligence will ruin us; but we cannot be saved without diligence. It is our interest, as well as our duty, to be religious. It will be our life. Godliness has the promise of the continuance and comfort of the life that now is, as far as it is for God's glory. It will be our righteousness. It is only through the Mediator we can be righteous before God. The knowledge of the spirituality and excellency of the holy law of God, is suited to show sinful man his need of a Saviour, and to prepare his heart to welcome a free salvation. The gospel honours the law, not only in the perfect obedience of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ; but in that it is a plan for bringing back apostate rebels and enemies, by repentance, faith, forgiveness, and renewing grace, to love God above all things, even in this world; and in the world above, to love him perfectly, even as angels love him.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Deuteronomy 6:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שָׁמ֣וֹרsha.Morcertainly <to keep>H8104
תִּשְׁמְר֔וּןtish.me.Runyou will keep !H8104
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
מִצְוֹ֖תmitz.Vot[the] commandments ofH4687
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם'e.lo.hei.KhemGod yourH430
וְעֵדֹתָ֥יוve.'e.do.Tavand testimonies hisH5713
וְחֻקָּ֖יוve.chu.Kavand statutes hisH2706
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
צִוָּֽךְ\׃tzi.Vakhhe has commanded youH6680

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 6:17

  • Deuteronomy 11:22

    For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

  • Psalms 119:4

    Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:58

    Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

  • 2 Peter 3:14

    Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

  • 2 Peter 1:5-10

    And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. …

  • Titus 3:8

    This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

  • Exodus 15:26

    And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

  • Hebrews 6:11

    And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

  • Deuteronomy 6:1-2

    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: 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.

  • Deuteronomy 11:13

    And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1,2; 11:13,22; Ex 15:26; Ps 119:4; 1Co 15:58; Tit 3:8; Heb 6:11
2Pe 1:5-10; 3:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 6:16

    Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

  • Deuteronomy 6:17

    Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

  • Deuteronomy 6:18

    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,

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Deuteronomy 6:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Guardad cuidadosamente los mandamientos de Jehová vuestro Dios, y sus testimonios, y sus estatutos, que te ha mandado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vous garderez soigneusement les commandements de l’ Éternel, votre Dieu, et ses témoignages et ses statuts qu’il t’a commandés.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ihr sollt fleißig beobachten die Gebote Jehovas, eures Gottes, und seine Zeugnisse und seine Satzungen, die er dir geboten hat.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Custodi præcepta Domini Dei tui, ac testimonia et cæremonias, quas præcepit tibi: