Deuteronomy 30:19

New International Reader's Version

I’m calling for the heavens and the earth to be witnesses against you this very day. I’m offering you the choice of life or death. You can choose either blessings or curses. But I want you to choose life. Then you and your children will live.

Cross References

Genesis 2:17

But you must not eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you do, you will certainly die.”

Psalm 119:111

Your covenant laws are your gift to me forever. They fill my heart with joy.

Psalm 119:173

May your hand be ready to help me, because I have chosen to obey your rules.

Psalm 119:30

I have chosen to be faithful to you. I put my trust in your laws.

Proverbs 1:29

You hated knowledge. You didn’t choose to have respect for the Lord.

Proverbs 12:28

There is life in doing what is right. Along that path you will never die.

Proverbs 8:36

But those who don’t find me harm only themselves. Everyone who hates me loves death.”

Proverbs 9:11

Through wisdom, you will live a long time. Years will be added to your life.

Isaiah 1:2

Listen to me, you heavens! Pay attention to me, earth! The Lord has said, “I raised children. I brought them up. But they have refused to obey me.

Isaiah 56:4

The Lord says, “Suppose some eunuchs keep my Sabbath days. They choose to do what pleases me. And they are faithful in keeping my covenant.

Jeremiah 21:8

“Tell the people, ‘The Lord says, “I am offering you a choice. You can choose the way that leads to life. Or you can choose the way that leads to death.

Jeremiah 32:39

I will give them a single purpose in life. Then, they will always have respect for me. Then all will go well for them. And it will also go well for their children after them.

Jeremiah 42:21

I have told you today what the Lord your God wants you to do. But you still haven’t obeyed him. You haven’t done anything he sent me to tell you to do.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my rules. I made my laws known to them. The person who obeys them will live by them.

Luke 10:42

But few things are needed. Really, only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better. And it will not be taken away from her.”

Acts 2:39

The promise is for you and your children. It is also for all who are far away. It is for all whom the Lord our God will choose.”

Deuteronomy 11:26

Listen to me. I’m setting a blessing and a curse in front of you today.

Deuteronomy 30:1

I have told you about all these blessings and curses. The Lord your God will bring them on you. Then you will think carefully about the blessings and curses. You will think about them everywhere the Lord your God scatters you among the nations.

Deuteronomy 30:15

Today I’m giving you a choice. You can have life and success. Or you can have death and harm.

Deuteronomy 30:16

I’m commanding you today to love the Lord your God. I’m commanding you to live exactly as he wants you to live. You must obey his commands, rules and laws. Then you will live. There will be many of you. The Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to take as your own.

Deuteronomy 31:17

In that day I will become angry with them. I will desert them. I will turn my face away from them. And they will be destroyed. Many horrible troubles and hard times will come on them. On that day they will say, ‘Trouble has come on us. Our God isn’t with us!’

Deuteronomy 31:28

Gather together all the elders of your tribes and all your officials. Bring them to me. Then I can speak these words to them. I can call for the heavens and the earth to be witnesses against them.

Deuteronomy 32:1

Heavens, listen to me. Then I will speak. Earth, hear the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now, Israel, listen to the rules and laws I’m going to teach you. Obey them and you will live. You will go in and take over the land. The Lord was the God of your people of long ago. He’s giving you the land.

Deuteronomy 4:25

So don’t make a statue of a god. Don’t commit that horrible sin. Don’t do it even after you have had children and grandchildren. Don’t do it even after you have lived in the land a long time. If you do, that will be an evil thing in the sight of the Lord your God. You will make him angry.

Deuteronomy 4:26

Today I’m calling out to the heavens and the earth to be witnesses against you. Suppose you do these things. Then you will quickly die in the land you are going across the Jordan River to take over. You won’t live there very long. You will certainly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:6

Be careful to keep them. That will show the nations how wise and understanding you are. They will hear about all these rules. They’ll say, “That great nation certainly has wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 6:2

Then you, your children and their children after them will honor the Lord your God as long as you live. Obey all his rules and commands I’m giving you. If you do, you will enjoy long life.

1 Timothy 5:21

I command you to follow these instructions. I command you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels. Treat everyone the same. Don’t favor one person over another.