Deuteronomy 30:19

Modern English Version

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

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 from it you will surely die.”

Psalm 119:111

Your testimonies have I taken as my heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing 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; Your judgments have I set 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 is life, and in that path is no death.

Proverbs 8:36

but he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those 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 give ear, O earth. For the Lord has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me;

Isaiah 56:4

For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose the things that please Me, and take hold of My covenant,

Jeremiah 21:8

To this people you shall say: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Jeremiah 32:39

And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for their children after them.

Jeremiah 42:21

Now I have this day declared it to you. But you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, or anything for which He has sent me to you.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, which if a man does them, he shall live.

Luke 10:42

But one thing is needed. And Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Deuteronomy 11:26

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

Deuteronomy 30:1

When all these things happen to you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you remember them among all the nations, where the Lord your God has driven you,

Deuteronomy 30:15

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

Deuteronomy 30:16

What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. Then the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then My anger will burn against them on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they will be devoured, and many disasters and troubles will befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not among us?’

Deuteronomy 31:28

Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I may speak 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; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now therefore, listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live; and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:25

When you produce children and grandchildren and you have remained a long time in the land, and you corrupt yourselves and make a graven image, or the likeness of anything, and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God, to provoke Him to anger,

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely and suddenly perish from off the land that you are going across the Jordan to possess. You will not prolong your days on it, but shall be completely destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:6

Therefore, keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 6:2

so that you might fear the Lord your God in order to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you—you, and your son, and your grandson—all the days of your life, so that your days may be prolonged.

1 Timothy 5:21

I command you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.