15 "See , I have set before you today life and prosperity , and death and adversity ; 16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God , to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments , that you may live and multiply , and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where e you are entering to possess it. 17 "But if your heart turns away and you will not obey , but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today that you shall surely perish . You will not prolong your days in the land where e you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it. 19 " I call heaven and earth to witness against you today , that I have set before you life and death , the blessing and the curse . So choose life in order that you may live , you and your descendants , 20 by loving the Lord your God , by obeying His voice , and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days , that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers , to Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , to give them."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:15-20
(Read Deuteronomy 30:15-20)
What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep and lasting impressions? Every man wishes to obtain life and good, and to escape death and evil; he desires happiness, and dreads misery. So 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 ever happy, if it be not their own fault. Let us hear the sum of the whole matter. If they and theirs would love God, and serve him, they should 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 equal clearness. Moses meant that same way of acceptance, which Paul more plainly described; and Paul's words mean the same obedience, on which Moses more fully treated. In both Testaments the good and right way is brought near, and plainly revealed to us.