Deuteronomy 30:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live

American Standard Version (1901)

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

Common English Bible

I call heaven and earth as my witnesses against you right now: I have set life and death, blessing and curse before you. Now choose life—so that you and your descendants will live—

Catholic Public Domain Version

I call heaven and earth as witnesses this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your offspring may live,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

Deuteronomy 30:19 Cross References

Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

Psalm 119:111

Your decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:173

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Psalm 119:30

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your ordinances before me.

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of righteousness there is life; in walking its path there is no death.

Proverbs 8:36

but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 9:11

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord has spoken: I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 56:4

For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,

Jeremiah 21:8

And to this people you shall say: Thus says the Lord: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.

Jeremiah 32:39

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for all time, for their own good and the good of their children after them.

Jeremiah 42:21

So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.

Luke 10:42

but few things are needed—indeed only one. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.”

Deuteronomy 11:26

“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

Deuteronomy 30:1

“When all these things have happened to you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, if you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you

Deuteronomy 30:15

“See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity.

Deuteronomy 30:16

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 31:17

My anger will be kindled against them on that day. I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become easy prey, and many terrible troubles will come upon them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these troubles come upon us because our God is not in our midst?’

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may recite these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deuteronomy 32:1

“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 4:1

“So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:25

“When you have had children and children’s children and become complacent in the land, if you act corruptly by making an idol in the form of anything, thus doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God and provoking him to anger,

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:6

You must observe them and perform them, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!’

Deuteronomy 6:2

so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long.

1 Timothy 5:21

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels, I warn you to keep these instructions without prejudice, doing nothing on the basis of partiality.