Deuteronomy 10:12-22

Living Bible

^12-13 “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to listen carefully to all he says to you, and to obey for your own good the commandments I am giving you today, and to love him, and to worship him with all your hearts and souls? ¹⁴ Earth and highest heaven belong to the Lord your God. ¹⁵ And yet he rejoiced in your fathers and loved them so much that he chose you, their children, to be above every other nation, as is evident today. ¹⁶ Therefore, cleanse your sinful hearts and stop your stubbornness.

¹⁷ “Jehovah your God is God of gods and Lord of lords. He is the great and mighty God, the God of terror who shows no partiality and takes no bribes. ¹⁸ He gives justice to the fatherless and widows. He loves foreigners and gives them food and clothing. ¹⁹ (You too must love foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.) ²⁰ You must fear the Lord your God and worship him and cling to him, and take oaths by his name alone. ²¹ He is your praise and he is your God, the one who has done mighty miracles you yourselves have seen. ²² When your ancestors went down into Egypt there were only seventy of them, but now the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars in the sky!