Deuteronomy 7:11 (LSB)

Passage

Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 7:9 You shall know therefore that Yahweh your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

Deuteronomy 7:10 but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to make them perish; He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face.

Deuteronomy 7:11 Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Deuteronomy 7:12 “Then it will be, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers.

Deuteronomy 7:13 And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "therefore", "shall", "keep", "commandment", "statutes", "judgments", "commanding", and "today". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "therefore" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "but repays those who hate Him to..." into verse 12's "Then it will be because you listen...", so "therefore" and "shall" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

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