Reward

How Nave’s arranged it

• A MOTIVE TO FAITHFULNESSExodus 20:6Exodus 20:12Leviticus 25:18Leviticus 25:19Leviticus 26:3–45Deuteronomy 4:40Deuteronomy 6:3Deuteronomy 6:18Deuteronomy 11:13–16Deuteronomy 11:18–21Deuteronomy 11:26–29Deuteronomy 15:9–11Deuteronomy 22:7Deuteronomy 24:19Deuteronomy 25:15Deuteronomy 27:12–26Joshua 8:33Isaiah 1:16–20Isaiah 3:10Isaiah 40:10
• See Blessing, Contingent upon Obedience
• See Punishments
• See Righteous, Promises to
• See Sin, Separates from God
• See Wicked, Punishment of

The passages, in Bible order (52)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 20:6

   but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

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   “Together with fear one must also love him, because he says of himself: And showing mercy unto thousands to those who love me; in which he shows us that the mercy and kindness of God transcends the punishment of iniquities. When the heart is enlarged …

   “And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me,....

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2. Exodus 20:12

   Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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   “The formation of the children is then the prerogative of the parents. Therefore honor your father, that he may bless you. Let the godly man honor his father out of gratitude and the ingrate do so on account of fear. Even if the father is poor and does not have plenty of resources to leave to his sons, still he has the heritage of his final blessing with which he may bestow the wealth of sanctification on his descendants. And it is a far greater thing to be blessed than it is to be rich.

   “Honour thy father and thy mother, &c.

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3. Leviticus 25:18

   You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

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   “Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them,....

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4. Leviticus 25:19

   Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.

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   “And the land shall yield her fruit,....

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5. Leviticus 26:3–45

   If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

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   “If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them. Both moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which had been delivered unto them, and now completely recorded in this and the preceding book; for what follow in the two next are chiefly repetitions of what are contained in these.

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6. Deuteronomy 4:40

   Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

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   “Thou shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments,....

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7. Deuteronomy 6:3

   Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

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   “Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it,....

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8. Deuteronomy 6:18

   Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,

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   “And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord,....

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9. Deuteronomy 11:13–16

   So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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   “And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day,.... In the name, and by the authority of the Lord, the only lawgiver: to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul; see Deu 10:12. Jarchi interprets this of prayer; but it is not to be restrained to that only, but includes the whole service of God, in all the parts of it, performed from a principle of love to him, and in sincerity and truth.

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10. Deuteronomy 11:18–21

    Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

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    “Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart, and in your soul,.... Treasure up the laws of God delivered to them in their minds, retain them in their memories, and cherish a cordial affection for them; which would be an antidote against apostasy, idolatry, and other sins, Psa 119:11. and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes; of this and the two following verses; see Gill on Deu 6:7; see Gill on Deu 6:8; see Gill on Deu 6:9.

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11. Deuteronomy 11:26–29

    See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

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    “Behold, the wondrous benefit of observance and the wondrous calamity of transgression. Whence the Lord through Moses: "Behold, I set before thee blessing and curse: blessing, if thou shalt keep My commandments: curse, if thou shalt not keep them." The Lord places us in the …

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12. Deuteronomy 15:9–11

    Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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    “Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,....

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13. Deuteronomy 22:7

    You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

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    “But thou shall in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee,....

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14. Deuteronomy 24:19

    If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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    “[Of old,] it was wicked and unlawful to gather the sheaves left after the harvest, or to glean the vines after the vintage or to gather up the olives that remain after the trees were picked, because these things were to be left for the …

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15. Deuteronomy 25:15

    You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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    “But thou shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall thou have,....

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16. Deuteronomy 27:12–26

    “When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

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    “These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people, widen ye are come over Jordan,....

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