Deuteronomy 8:1 (DRB)

Passage

All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may possess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may possess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.

Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

Deuteronomy 8:3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "commandments", "thee", "take", "great", "care", "observe", and "live". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "commandments" and "thee", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "And thou shalt remember all the way...", so "commandments" and "thee" should be read forward into that movement. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "commandments" and "thee" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.