Deuteronomy 30:19

New International Version

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

Cross References

Genesis 2:17

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Psalm 119:111

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

Psalm 119:173

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

Psalm 119:30

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.

Proverbs 1:29

since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord.

Proverbs 12:28

In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.

Proverbs 8:36

But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 9:11

For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.

Isaiah 1:2

Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 56:4

For this is what the Lord says: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant—

Jeremiah 21:8

“Furthermore, tell the people, ‘This is what the Lord says: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.

Jeremiah 32:39

I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them.

Jeremiah 42:21

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

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.

Luke 10:42

but few things are needed—or indeed only one. 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 and for all who are far off—for all whom 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 blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations,

Deuteronomy 30:15

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

Deuteronomy 30:16

For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 31:17

And in that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?’

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to testify against them.

Deuteronomy 32:1

Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:25

After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger,

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:6

Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 6:2

so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.

1 Timothy 5:21

I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism.