Deuteronomy 30:15

"See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but thou shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither thou goest over the Jordan to possess it. I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."

This is the grand conclusion that brings the whole procedure of the re-ratification of the covenant to its dramatic and formal terminal. "In conclusion, Moses sums up the contents of the whole of his preaching on the law in the words, "Life and good, and death and evil."[28] Of the very highest importance was the command "to love" Jehovah in Deuteronomy 30:20. Scott referred to this little paragraph as "the peroration"[29] to all of Moses' preceding lectures.

"He is thy life, and the length of thy days ..." (Deuteronomy 30:20). Alexander rendered this: "For this is thy life; to love the Lord is really to live the true, the higher life."[30] "Adam and Eve died the day they ate the fruit; they ceased not to exist, but died out of fellowship with God. People die when they are separated from God as really as the branch broken from the tree. Sin is the mother of death (James 1:15). It brings it forth because it separates the soul from him who is the Fountain of life."[31] It was of this that Paul spoke when he declared that, "She that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth" (1 Timothy 5:6).