Deuteronomy 30:19

New Century Version

Today I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses. I am offering you life or death, blessings or curses. Now, choose life! Then you and your children may live.

Cross References

Genesis 2:17

but you must not eat the fruit from the tree which gives the knowledge of good and evil. If you ever eat fruit from that tree, you will die!”

Psalm 119:111

I will follow your rules forever, because they make me happy.

Psalm 119:173

Give me your helping hand, because I have chosen your commands.

Psalm 119:30

I have chosen the way of truth; I have obeyed your laws.

Proverbs 1:29

It is because you rejected knowledge and did not choose to respect the Lord.

Proverbs 12:28

Doing what is right is the way to life, but there is another way that leads to death.

Proverbs 8:36

Those who do not find me hurt themselves. Those who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 9:11

If you live wisely, you will live a long time; wisdom will add years to your life.

Isaiah 1:2

Heaven and earth, listen, because the Lord is speaking: “I raised my children and helped them grow up, but they have turned against me.

Isaiah 56:4

This is what the Lord says: “The eunuchs should obey the law about the Sabbath and do what I want and keep my agreement.

Jeremiah 21:8

“Also tell this to the people of Jerusalem: ‘This is what the Lord says: I will let you choose to live or die.

Jeremiah 32:39

I will make them truly want to be one people with one goal. They will truly want to worship me all their lives, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

Jeremiah 42:21

So today I have told you, but you have not obeyed the Lord your God in all that he sent me to tell you.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my rules and told them about my laws, by which people will live if they obey them.

Luke 10:42

Only one thing is important. Mary has chosen the better thing, and it will never be taken away from her.”

Acts 2:39

This promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away. It is for everyone the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Deuteronomy 11:26

See, today I am letting you choose a blessing or a curse.

Deuteronomy 30:1

When all these blessings and curses I have described happen to you, and the Lord your God has sent you away to other nations, think about these things.

Deuteronomy 30:15

Look, today I offer you life and success, death and destruction.

Deuteronomy 30:16

I command you today to love the Lord your God, to do what he wants you to do, and to keep his commands, his rules, and his laws. Then you will live and grow in number, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to take as your own.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then I will become very angry at them, and I will leave them. I will turn away from them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible things will happen to them. Then they will say, ‘It is because God is not with us that these terrible things are happening.’

Deuteronomy 31:28

Gather all the older leaders of your tribes and all your officers to me so that I may say these things for them to hear, and so that I may ask heaven and earth to testify against them.

Deuteronomy 32:1

Hear, heavens, and I will speak. Listen, earth, to what I say.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now, Israel, listen to the laws and commands I will teach you. Obey them so that you will live and so that you will go over and take the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving to you.

Deuteronomy 4:25

Even after you have lived in the land a long time and have had children and grandchildren, don’t do evil things. Don’t make any kind of idol, and don’t do what the Lord your God says is evil, because that will make him angry.

Deuteronomy 4:26

If you do, I ask heaven and earth to speak against you this day that you will quickly be removed from this land that you are crossing the Jordan River to take. You will not live there long after that, but you will be completely destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:6

Obey these laws carefully, in order to show the other nations that you have wisdom and understanding. When they hear about these laws, they will say, “This great nation of Israel is wise and understanding.”

Deuteronomy 6:2

You, your children, and your grandchildren must respect the Lord your God as long as you live. Obey all his rules and commands I give you so that you will live a long time.

1 Timothy 5:21

Before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels, I command you to do these things without showing favor of any kind to anyone.