Deuteronomy 30:19

New American Bible - revised edition

I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,

Cross References

Genesis 2:17

except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; when you eat from it you shall die.

Psalm 119:111

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

Psalm 119:173

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

Psalm 119:30

The way of loyalty I have chosen; I have kept your judgments.

Proverbs 1:29

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

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of justice is life, but the way of abomination leads to death.

Proverbs 8:36

But those who pass me by do violence to themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 9:11

For by me your days will be multiplied and the years of your life increased.

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have rebelled against me!

Isaiah 56:4

For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose what pleases me, and who hold fast to my covenant,

Jeremiah 21:8

And to this people you shall say: Thus says the Lord: See, I am giving you a choice between the way to life and the way to death.

Jeremiah 32:39

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

Jeremiah 42:21

Today I have told you, but you have not listened to the voice of the Lord your God, in anything that he has sent me to tell you.

Ezekiel 20:11

Then I gave them my statutes and made known to them my ordinances, so that everyone who keeps them has life through them.

Luke 10:42

There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.”

Deuteronomy 11:26

See, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

Deuteronomy 30:1

When all these things, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, come upon you, and you take them to heart in any of the nations where the Lord, your God, has dispersed you,

Deuteronomy 30:15

See, I have today set before you life and good, death and evil.

Deuteronomy 30:16

If you obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I am giving you today, loving the Lord, your God, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and ordinances, you will live and grow numerous, and the Lord, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 31:17

At that time my anger will flare up against them; I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become a prey to be devoured, and much evil and distress will befall them. At that time they will indeed say, “Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us?”

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble all your tribal elders and your officials before me, that I may speak these words for them to hear and so may call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deuteronomy 32:1

Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth!

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now therefore, Israel, hear the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:25

When you have children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, should you then act corruptly by fashioning an idol in the form of anything, and by this evil done in his sight provoke the Lord, your God,

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live in it for any length of time but shall be utterly wiped out.

Deuteronomy 4:6

Observe them carefully, for this is your wisdom and discernment in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “This great nation is truly a wise and discerning people.”

Deuteronomy 6:2

so that you, that is, you, your child, and your grandchild, may fear the Lord, your God, by keeping, as long as you live, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life.

1 Timothy 5:21

I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to keep these rules without prejudice, doing nothing out of favoritism.