Deuteronomy 7:13

New International Reader's Version

The Lord will love you and bless you. He’ll cause there to be many of you. He’ll give you many children. He’ll bless the crops of your land. He’ll give you plenty of grain, olive oil and fresh wine. He’ll bless your herds with many calves. He’ll give your flocks many lambs. He’ll do all these things for you in the land of Canaan. It’s the land he promised your people of long ago that he would give you.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:32

“Our God, you are the great God. You are mighty and wonderful. You keep the covenant you made with us. You show us your love. So don’t let all our suffering seem like a small thing to you. We’ve suffered greatly. So have our kings and leaders. So have our priests and prophets. Our people who lived long ago also suffered. And all your people are suffering right now. In fact, we’ve been suffering from the time of the kings of Assyria until today.

Job 1:10

Haven’t you guarded him and his family? Haven’t you taken care of everything he has? You have blessed everything he does. His flocks and herds are spread all through the land.

Job 42:12

The Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life even more than the first part. He gave Job 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels. He gave him 1,000 pairs of oxen and 1,000 donkeys.

Psalm 1:3

That kind of person is like a tree that is planted near a stream of water. It always bears its fruit at the right time. Its leaves don’t dry up. Everything godly people do turns out well.

Psalm 107:38

He blessed the people, and they greatly increased their numbers. He kept their herds from getting smaller.

Psalm 11:7

The Lord always does what is right. So he loves it when people do what is fair. Those who are honest will enjoy his blessing.

Psalm 127:3

Children are a gift from the Lord. They are a reward from him.

Psalm 146:8

The Lord gives sight to those who are blind. The Lord lifts up those who feel helpless. The Lord loves those who do what is right.

Exodus 23:25

Worship the Lord your God. Then he will bless your food and water. I, the Lord, will take away any sickness you may have.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord brings wealth. And it comes without painful work.

Proverbs 15:9

The Lord hates how sinners live. But he loves those who run after what is right.

Leviticus 26:9

“ ‘I will bless you. I will give you many children so that there will be many of you. And I will be faithful to the covenant I made with you.

Matthew 6:33

But put God’s kingdom first. Do what he wants you to do. Then all those things will also be given to you.

John 14:21

Anyone who has my commands and obeys them loves me. My Father will love the one who loves me. I too will love them. And I will show myself to them.”

John 15:10

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love. In the same way, I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

John 16:27

No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me. He also loves you because you have believed that I came from God.

Deuteronomy 1:8

I have given you all this land. Go in and take it as your own. The Lord promised he would give the land to your fathers. He promised it to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He also said he would give it to their children after them.”

Deuteronomy 13:17

Don’t keep anything that should be destroyed. Then the Lord will turn away from his great anger. He will show you mercy. He’ll have deep concern for you. He’ll cause there to be many of you. That’s what he promised your people of long ago. He gave his word when he made the promise.

Deuteronomy 28:1

Make sure you obey the Lord your God completely. Be careful to obey all his commands. I’m giving them to you today. If you do these things, the Lord will honor you more than all the other nations on earth.

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will give you more than you need. You will have many children. Your livestock will have many little ones. Your crops will do very well. All of that will happen in the land he promised to give you. He promised this to your people of long ago.

Deuteronomy 30:5

He will bring you to the land that belonged to your people of long ago. You will take it over. He’ll make you better off than your people were. He’ll cause there to be more of you than there were of them.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The Lord chose you because he loved you very much. He didn’t choose you because you had more people than other nations. In fact, you had the smallest number of all.