if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
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if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Cross-references (13)
Passages linked to Deuteronomy 30:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Lamentations 3:40-41 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 30:2 and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 30:8 You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
- Nehemiah 1:9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
- Isaiah 55:2-3 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness. Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- 1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
- Ezekiel 18:21 “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
- Ezekiel 33:11 Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’
- Ezekiel 33:14 Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;
- Ezekiel 33:19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.
- Acts 3:19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
- Acts 26:20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This caution and condition is added to warn them…
This caution and condition is added to warn them that they should not receive the grace of God in vain, and to teach them that the grace of God doth not discharge man’s obligation to his duty, nor excuse him for the neglect of it, and that conversion and sanctification, though it be God’s work, yet it is man’s duty.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the…
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God,.... Or rather, "for thou shalt hearken" (p); seeing it is before promised that the Lord would circumcise their hearts to love him, and they should obey his voice, Deu 30:6. The Targum is,"receive the Word of the Lord:"
to keep his commandments and his statutes, which are written in this book of the law; particularly in this chapter, and all that are of a moral nature:
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and if thou return unto the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; or, "for thou shall return", &c. as it is promised they should, Deu 30:8.
(p) "quia obedies", Cocceius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain If thou wilt hearken - This is added to…
If thou wilt hearken - This is added to warn them that they should not receive the grace of God in vain, and to teach them that the grace of God doth not discharge man's obligation to his duty, nor excuse him for the neglect of it. It is observable, that Moses calls God, the Lord thy God twelve times in these ten verses. In the threatnings of the former chapter, he is all along called the Lord, a God of power, and the judge of all. But in the promises of this chapter, the Lord thy God, a God of grace, and in covenant with thee.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 30:10. If thou wilt hearken — This is…
Deu 30:10. If thou wilt hearken — This is added to warn them that they should not receive the grace of God in vain, and to teach them that the grace of God doth not discharge man’s obligation to his duty, nor excuse him for the neglect of it. It is observable, that Moses calls God, the Lord thy God, twelve times in these ten verses. In the threatenings of the former chapter, he is all along called the Lord, a God of power, and the Judge of all. But in the promises of this chapter, the Lord thy God, a God of grace, and in covenant with thee.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. Possibly an editorial transition to the next section…
10. Possibly an editorial transition to the next section (so Steuern.).
written in this book of the law] Cp. Deu_29:20; here the text curiously gives written in the sing. participle, as if quoting from there.
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turn unto, etc.] See on Deu_30:8.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) If thou shalt hearken.—“If” is the LXX. translation.…
(10) If thou shalt hearken.—“If” is the LXX. translation. The Hebrew word signifies “for,” or “when.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Israel would then be restored to the full enjoyment…
Israel would then be restored to the full enjoyment of privilege, would again enter into covenant union with the Almighty, and would be enriched with all the blessings of his favor; (cf. Deu_28:11, Deu_28:63) only, however, on the indispensable condition of their hearkening to the voice of God and being obedient to his Law.
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