Deuteronomy 7:11 (WEB)

Passage

You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you today, to do them.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Deuteronomy 7:10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

Deuteronomy 7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you today, to do them.

Deuteronomy 7:12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.

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

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "and repays those who hate him to..." into verse 12's "It shall happen because you listen to...", so "shall" and "therefore" 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 "shall" and "therefore" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.