Deuteronomy 6:3

Good News Translation

Listen to them, people of Israel, and obey them! Then all will go well with you, and you will become a mighty nation and live in that rich and fertile land, just as the Lord, the God of our ancestors, has promised.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!

Genesis 15:5

The Lord took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that.”

Genesis 22:17

I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.

Genesis 28:14

They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.

Psalm 119:4

Lord, you have given us your laws and told us to obey them faithfully.

Exodus 1:7

but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.

Exodus 3:17

I have decided that I will bring them out of Egypt, where they are being treated cruelly, and will take them to a rich and fertile land—the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 3:6

I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” So Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

Exodus 3:8

and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

A sinner may commit a hundred crimes and still live. Oh yes, I know what they say: “If you obey God, everything will be all right,

Isaiah 3:10

The righteous will be happy, and things will go well for them. They will get to enjoy what they have worked for.

Jeremiah 42:6

Whether it pleases us or not, we will obey the Lord our God, to whom we are asking you to pray. All will go well with us if we obey him.”

Jeremiah 7:23

But I did command them to obey me, so that I would be their God and they would be my people. And I told them to live the way I had commanded them, so that things would go well for them.

Acts 7:17

“When the time drew near for God to keep the promise he had made to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had grown much larger.

Deuteronomy 11:9

And you will live a long time in the rich and fertile land that the Lord promised to give your ancestors and their descendants.

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down from your holy place in heaven and bless your people Israel; bless also the rich and fertile land that you have given us, as you promised our ancestors.’

Deuteronomy 26:9

He brought us here and gave us this rich and fertile land.

Deuteronomy 27:3

and write on them all these laws and teachings. When you have entered the rich and fertile land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you,

Deuteronomy 31:20

I will take them into this rich and fertile land, as I promised their ancestors. There they will have all the food they want, and they will live comfortably. But they will turn away and worship other gods. They will reject me and break my covenant,

Deuteronomy 4:40

Obey all his laws that I have given you today, and all will go well with you and your descendants. You will continue to live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to be yours forever.”

Deuteronomy 4:6

Obey them faithfully, and this will show the people of other nations how wise you are. When they hear of all these laws, they will say, ‘What wisdom and understanding this great nation has!’

Deuteronomy 8:8

a land that produces wheat and barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and honey.