In this manner, the moral laws lead through the conception of the summum bonum as the object and final end of pure practical reason to religion, that is, to the recognition of all duties as divine commands, not as sanctions, that is to say, arbitrary ordinances of a foreign and contingent in themselves, but as essential laws of every free will in itself, which, nevertheless, must be regarded as commands of the Supreme Being, because it is only from a morally perfect (holy and good) and at the same time all-powerful will, and consequently only through harmony with this will, that we can hope to attain the summum bonum which the moral law makes it our duty to take as the object of our endeavours.
Era horretara, lege morala ongi gorenaren adigaiaren bidez, arrazoimen praktiko hutsaren objektu eta azken xede gisa, erlijiora doa, hau da, betebehar guztien ezagutzara jainkotiar agindu gisa, eta ez zigor gisa, hau da, nahimen arrotz baten ausazko ebazpen nahierazko gisa, baizik eta nahimen aske orok norberarentzat dituen funtsezko lege gisa, zeinak, hala ere, ongi gorenaren agindu gisa hartu behar diren, zeren guk nahimen moralki bete (santu eta on) eta aldi berean oroahaldun baten eskutik soilik itxaron baitezakegu ongi gorena, hori gure ahaleginen objektu gisa ezartzea lege moralak betebehar bihurtzen digunez, eta beraz, nahimen horrekin adostuz itxaron dezakegu hori lortzea.