Deuteronomy 15:5
Parallel Verses
New International Version
if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.


English Standard Version
if only you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.


New American Standard Bible
if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.


King James Bible
Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.


International Standard Version
Only be certain to obey the voice of the LORD your God. Carefully observe all of these commands that I'm commanding to you today.


American Standard Version
if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.


Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised.


Darby Bible Translation
if thou only diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.


Young's Literal Translation
'Only, if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding thee to-day,


Commentaries
15:1-11 This year of release typified the grace of the gospel, in which is proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord; and by which we obtain the release of our debts, that is, the pardon of our sins. The law is spiritual, and lays restraints upon the thoughts of the heart. We mistake, if we think thoughts are free from God's knowledge and check. That is a wicked heart indeed, which raises evil thoughts from the good law of God, as theirs did, who, because God had obliged them to the charity of forgiving, denied the charity of giving. Those who would keep from the act of sin, must keep out of their minds the very thought of sin. It is a dreadful thing to have the cry of the poor justly against us. Grudge not a kindness to thy brother; distrust not the providence of God. What thou doest, do freely, for God loves a cheerful giver, 2Co 9:7.

4. Save when there shall be no poor man among you—Apparently a qualifying clause added to limit the application of the foregoing statement [De 15:3]; so that "the brother" to be released pointed to a poor borrower, whereas it is implied that if he were rich, the restoration of the loan might be demanded even during that year. But the words may properly be rendered (as on the Margin) to the end, in order that there may be no poor among you—that is, that none be reduced to inconvenient straits and poverty by unseasonable exaction of debts at a time when there was no labor and no produce, and that all may enjoy comfort and prosperity, which will be the case through the special blessing of God on the land, provided they are obedient.
Deuteronomy 15:4
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