Deuteronomy 6:4-18

English Standard Version

⁴ “Hear, O Israel: ^(A)The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^{[a] 5} You ^(B)shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶ And ^(C)these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. ^7 (D)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ^8 (E)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ^9 (F)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

¹⁰ “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities ^(G)that you did not build, ¹¹ and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, ^12 (H)then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. ¹³ It is ^(I)the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and ^(J)by his name you shall swear. ¹⁴ You shall not ^(K)go after other gods, ^(L)the gods of the peoples who are around you— ¹⁵ for ^(M)the Lord your God in your midst ^(N)is a jealous God—^(O)lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

^16 (P)“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, ^(Q)as you tested him at Massah. ¹⁷ You shall ^(R)diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. ^18 (S)And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers