Deuteronomy 6:13

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Respect the Lord your God and serve only him. You must use only his name to make promises.

Cross References

Luke 4:8

Jesus answered, “The Scriptures say, ‘You must worship the Lord your God. Serve only him.’” Deuteronomy 6:13

Matthew 4:10

Jesus said to him, “Get away from me, Satan! The Scriptures say, ‘You must worship the Lord your God. Serve only him!’” Deuteronomy 6:13

Deuteronomy 10:20

“You must respect the Lord your God and worship only him. Never leave him. When you make promises, you must use his name only.

Deuteronomy 13:4

You must follow the Lord your God. Respect him. Obey his commands and do what he tells you. Serve the Lord your God, and never leave him.

Leviticus 19:12

You must not use my name to make false promises. If you do that, you will show that you don’t respect the name of your God. I am the Lord!

Jeremiah 12:16

I want these people to learn their lessons well. In the past they taught my people to use Baal’s name to make promises. Now, I want them to learn to use my name. I want them to say, ‘As the Lord lives ….’ If they do that, I will allow them to be successful, and I will let them live among my people.

Isaiah 65:16

The Lord says, “People now ask blessings from the earth. But in the future they will ask blessings from the faithful God. People now trust in the power of the earth when they make a promise. But in the future they will trust in the God who is faithful. That’s because the troubles in the past will all be forgotten. They will be hidden from my sight.”

Isaiah 45:23

“When I make a promise, that promise is true. It will happen. And I swear by my own power that everyone will bow before me and will take an oath to obey me.

Psalm 63:11

But the king will be happy with his God, and those who promised to obey him will praise him when he defeats those liars.

Deuteronomy 10:12

“Now, Israelites, listen! What does the Lord your God really want from you? The Lord your God wants you to respect him and do what he says. He wants you to love him and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Jeremiah 4:2

If you do these things, you will be able to use my name to make a promise. You will be able to say, ‘As the Lord lives.’ You will be able to use these words in a truthful, honest, and right way. If you do these things, the nations will be blessed by the Lord. They will brag about what the Lord has done.”

Joshua 2:12

So now, I want you to make a promise to me. I was kind to you and helped you. So promise me before the Lord that you will be kind to my family. Please tell me that you will do this.

Psalm 15:4

They hate those who fail to please God and honor those who respect the Lord. If they make a promise to their neighbor, they do what they promised.

Deuteronomy 6:2

You and your descendants must respect the Lord your God as long as you live. You must obey all his laws and commands that I give you. If you do this, you will have a long life in that new land.

Deuteronomy 5:29

I only wanted to change their way of thinking—I wanted them to respect me and obey all my commands from the heart. Then everything would be fine with them and with their descendants forever.

Jeremiah 5:7

God says, “People of Judah, why should I forgive you? Your children have abandoned me. They made promises to idols that are not really gods! I gave your children everything they needed, but they were still unfaithful to me! They spent their time with prostitutes.

Jeremiah 5:2

The people make promises and say, ‘As the Lord lives.’ But they don’t really mean it!”

Matthew 5:33

“You have heard that it was said to our people long ago, ‘When you make a vow, you must not break your promise. Keep the vows that you make to the Lord.’

Exodus 20:7

“You must not use the name of the Lord your God to make empty promises. If you do, the Lord will not let you go unpunished.

Exodus 23:25

You must serve the Lord your God. If you do this, I will bless you with plenty of bread and water. I will take away all sickness from you.

Deuteronomy 5:11

‘You must not use the name of the Lord your God to make empty promises. If you do, the Lord will not let you go unpunished.

Joshua 23:7

That’s why you must not make friends with the people of other nations who still live among you. You must not serve or worship their gods. Don’t even mention the names of their gods when you pray or make an oath.

1 Samuel 7:3

Samuel told the Israelites, “If you are really coming back to the Lord with all your heart, you must throw away your foreign gods and your idols of Ashtoreth. You must give yourselves fully to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will save you from the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 20:3

But David answered, “Your father knows very well that I am your friend. Your father said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know about it. If he knows, he will tell David.’ But as surely as you and the Lord are alive, I am very close to death.”

2 Kings 17:36

But you must follow the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt. He used his great power to save you. You must worship him and make sacrifices to him.

Isaiah 48:1

“Family of Jacob, listen to me! You people call yourself ‘Israel,’ but you are from Judah’s family. When you take an oath, I, the Lord, the God of Israel, am the one whose name you use, but you are not honest and sincere.

Genesis 24:3

Now I want you to make a promise to me. Promise to me before the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry a girl from Canaan. We live among these people, but don’t let him marry a Canaanite girl.

Deuteronomy 13:5

Also, you must kill that prophet or person who explains dreams, because they told you to turn against the Lord your God. And it was the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you were slaves. They tried to pull you away from the life he commanded you to live, so you must kill them to remove this evil from your people.

Joshua 24:14

Then Joshua said to the people, “Now you have heard the Lord’s words. So you must respect the Lord and sincerely serve him. Throw away the false gods that your ancestors worshiped. That was something that happened a long time ago on the other side of the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Now you must serve only the Lord.