Deuteronomy 6:18-25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be our righteousness - The evidence that we are under the influence of the fear and love of God. Moses does not say that this righteousness could be wrought without the influence of God's mercy, nor does he say that they should purchase heaven by it: but, God required them to be conformed to his will in all things, that they might be holy in heart, and righteous in every part of their moral conduct. 1. On a very important subject in this chapter, it may be necessary to make some... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:20

Verse 20 20.And when thy son asketh thee. The sole point which Moses urges in these verses is, that the people should testify their gratitude by obeying the Law, and that the same religion, (232) which he commands the fathers to teach, should descend to their posterity. The sum is, that there was good reason why all the precepts of the Law should be observed, since by them it was that God desired His people, after their deliverance, to shew forth their sense of His loving-kindness. Again,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 6:10-25

The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 6:25

Deuteronomy 6:25. It shall be our righteousness Hebrew, Righteousness shall be to us. We shall be owned, and pronounced by God to be righteous and holy persons, if we sincerely obey him; otherwise we shall be declared to be unrighteous and ungodly. Or, mercy shall be to us, or with us. For as the Hebrew word rendered righteousness is very often put for mercy, (as Psalms 24:5; Psalms 36:10; Psalms 51:14; Proverbs 10:2; Proverbs 11:4; Daniel 9:16,) so this sense seems best to agree both... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

The power of love (6:1-25)No matter how strong their determination to do right, the people would be unable to keep God’s law unless they first had a strong and genuine love for God himself. Love for him would give them the inner power to walk in his ways (6:1-5). As well as keeping God’s commandments themselves, they had to teach their children to do likewise. Their family life was to be guided by the knowledge of God’s law. Their house was to be known as a place where people loved God’s law... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 6:20

in time to come. Hebrew "to-morrow". Definite date put for indefinite. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 6:22

sore. Hebrew. r'a = inflicted evil, not moral. Compare Jeremiah 18:11 .Amos 3:6 , and see note on Isaiah 45:7 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 6:24

always = for all time. Hebrew all the days. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 6:25

our righteousness. This is superseded by Romans 10:4 , Romans 10:5 .Galatians 1:3 , Galatians 1:12 . That true then: this true now. No discrepancy if the Dispensations are rightly divided according to 2 Timothy 2:15 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:20

"When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, what mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you? then shalt thou say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes; and he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he... read more

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