Deuteronomy 30:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:3

And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

Isaiah 1:19

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

John 14:21

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

Deuteronomy 30:19

Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

Deuteronomy 32:47

And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

Deuteronomy 4:1

And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 5:33

Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

Deuteronomy 6:5

And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Joshua 23:11

So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.