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Deuteronomy 30:16

For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

  • KJV King James Version

    In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances; then thou shalt live and multiply, and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

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Cross-references (6)

Passages linked to Deuteronomy 30:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 30:6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
  • Matthew 22:37-38 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.
  • 1 John 5:2-3 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
  • Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
  • John 14:21 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
  • 1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

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Explain this verse (5 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain So that to love and obey God, is only…

So that to love and obey God, is only life and felicity.

He addeth these promises to signify that it is for our profit that we love him, and not for his.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 30:16 In that I command thee this day…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain In that I command thee this day to love…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. The constr. of the Heb. is faulty but…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 30:16 love the Lord your God: This paraphrases the…

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