Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
KJV
et observabitis et implebitis opere. Hæc est enim vestra sapientia, et intellectus coram populis, ut audientes universa præcepta hæc, dicant : En populus sapiens et intelligens, gens magna.
Vulgate
καὶ φυλάξεσθε καὶ ποιήσετε, ὅτι αὕτη ἡ σοφία ὑμῶν καὶ ἡ σύνεσις ἐναντίον πάντων ἐθνῶν, ὅσοι ἐὰν ἀκούσωσιν πάντα τὰ δικαιώματα ταῦτα καὶ ἐροῦσιν Ἰδοὺ λαὸς σοφὸς καὶ ἐπιστήμων τὸ ἔθνος τὸ μέγα τοῦτο.
LXX
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
ASV
וּ/שְׁמַרְתֶּם֮ וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶם֒ כִּ֣י הִ֤וא חָכְמַתְ/כֶם֙ וּ/בִ֣ינַתְ/כֶ֔ם לְ/עֵינֵ֖י הָ/עַמִּ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִשְׁמְע֗וּ/ן אֵ֚ת כָּל הַ/חֻקִּ֣ים הָ/אֵ֔לֶּה וְ/אָמְר֗וּ רַ֚ק עַם חָכָ֣ם וְ/נָב֔וֹן הַ/גּ֥וֹי הַ/גָּד֖וֹל הַ/זֶּֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
21 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Is it necessary? Is it a science? Is it one or many? Is it speculative or practical? How it is compared with other sciences? Is it the same as wisdom? Is God its subject-matter? Is it a matter of argument? Does it rightly employ metaphors and similes? May the Sacred Scripture of this doctrine be expounded in different senses? Article 1. Whether, besides philosophy, any further …
Cross-references
- 1Chr 22:12 — Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
- 1Kgs 4:34 — And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
- 1Kgs 10:6 — And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
- 1Tim 1:8 — But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
- 2Tim 3:15 — And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
- Dan 1:20 — And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
- Dan 4:9 — O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretat
- Dan 5:11 — There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Ne
- Deut 4:40 — Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon
- Deut 6:3 — Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk
- Deut 28:10 — And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
- Deut 28:13 — And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command th
- Deut 29:9 — Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
- Deut 30:19 — I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
- Eph 5:17 — Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
- Ezek 5:5 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
- Ezek 16:14 — And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
- Hos 8:12 — I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
- Jas 3:13 — Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
- Jer 8:9 — The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
- Jer 8:9 — The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
- Job 28:28 — And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
- Job 28:28 — And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
- Mal 3:12 — And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Mal 3:12 — And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Prov 1:7 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Prov 14:8 — The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
- Prov 14:34 — Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
- Ps 19:7 — The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
- Ps 53:2 — God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
- Ps 111:10 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
- Ps 111:10 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
- Ps 119:98 — Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
- Ps 119:98 — Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
- Ps 119:99 — I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
- Song 6:9 — My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they pr
- Zech 8:20 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
- Zech 8:23 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We