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When Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment was, he cited a passage from Deuteronomy 6 as the fundamental and first tenet of Scripture. The purpose of Deuteronomy is to teach the people of God how to behave in every area of life. And the two main principles of that teaching are to fear God and to obey his commandments. Using his own translation from the original Hebrew, Dr. John Currid...

6:1–3. ‘And this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgements which Yahweh your God commanded [me] to teach you to do in the land over to which you are crossing to possess it. So that you may fear Yahweh your God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I am commanding you—you and your son and your grandson—all the days of your life. It is so that your days will be lengthened. And you should listen, O Israel, and you should carefully do what is good for you and what will multiply
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