These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
-The promised blessings are connected with obedience-God's covenanted grace will lead those truly blessed by it to holiness, not licentiousness.
Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour - not that the truth should not be spoken to foreigners too; but he makes it an aggravation of their sin that they spared not even their brethren. Besides and above all outward ordinances (Zechariah 7:3; Zechariah 7:9), God requires truth and justice.
Execute the judgment of truth and peace. Equitable decisions tend to allay feuds and produce peace.
In your gates - the place where courts of judicature in the East were held.
Verse 17. For all these are things that I hate - therefore ye, too, ought to hate them. Religion consists in conformity to God's nature-that we should love what God loves, and hate what God hates.