SEV Biblia, Chapter 30:20
que ames al SEÑOR tu Dios, que oigas su voz, y te allegues a él; porque él es tu vida, y la longitud de tus días; a fin de que habites sobre la tierra que juró el SEÑOR a tus padres Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob, que les había de dar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:20
Verse 20. That thou mayest love the Lord] Without love there can be no obedience. Obey his voice] Without obedience love is fruitless and dead.
And-cleave unto him] Without close attachment and perseverance, temporary love, however sincere and fervent- temporary obedience, however disinterested, energetic, and pure while it lasts-will be ultimately ineffectual. He alone who endures to the end, shall be saved. Reader, how do matters stand between God and thy soul? He cannot persevere in the grace of God whose soul is not yet made a partaker of that grace. Many talk strenuously on the impossibility of falling from grace, who have not yet tasted that the Lord is gracious. How absurd to talk and dispute about the infallibility of arriving safely at the end of a way in which a man has never yet taken one hearty step! It is never among those that have the grace of God, but among those that have it not, that we find an overweening confidence.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. That thou mayest love the Lord thy God , etc.] And show it by keeping his commands: [and] that thou mayest obey his voice ; in his word, and by his prophets: and that thou mayest cleave unto him ; and to his worship, and not follow after and serve other gods: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days ; the God of their lives, and the Father of their mercies; the giver of long life, and all the blessings of it; and which he had promised to those that were obedient, to him, and which they might expect: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them ; the land of Canaan, often thus described; this was the grand promise made to obedience to the law, and was typical of eternal life and happiness; which is had, not through man’s obedience to the law, but through the obedience and righteousness of Christ.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-20 - What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep an lasting impressions? Every man wishes to obtain life and good, and to escape death and evil; he desires happiness, and dreads misery. S great is the compassion of the Lord, that he has favoured men, by his word, with such a knowledge of good and evil as will make them for eve happy, if it be not their own fault. Let us hear the sum of the whol matter. If they and theirs would love God, and serve him, they shoul live and be happy. If they or theirs should turn from God, desert his service, and worship other gods, that would certainly be their ruin There never was, since the fall of man, more than one way to heaven which is marked out in both Testaments, though not with equa clearness. Moses meant that same way of acceptance, which Paul mor plainly described; and Paul's words mean the same obedience, on whic Moses more fully treated. In both Testaments the good and right way i brought near, and plainly revealed to us __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
לאהבה 157 את 853 יהוה 3068 אלהיך 430 לשׁמע 8085 בקלו 6963 ולדבקה 1692 בו כי 3588 הוא 1931 חייך 2416 וארך 753 ימיך 3117 לשׁבת 3427 על 5921 האדמה 127 אשׁר 834 נשׁבע 7650 יהוה 3068 לאבתיך 1 לאברהם 85 ליצחק 3327 וליעקב 3290 לתת 5414 להם׃ 1992
