Deuteronomy 30:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live,

Cross References

Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

Psalm 119:111

Thy testimonies are my heritage for ever; yea, they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:173

Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts.

Psalm 119:30

I have chosen the way of faithfulness, I set thy ordinances before me.

Proverbs 1:29

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

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of error leads to death.

Proverbs 8:36

but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 9:11

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Sons have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 56:4

For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,

Jeremiah 21:8

“And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Jeremiah 32:39

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

Jeremiah 42:21

And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live.

Luke 10:42

one thing is needful. Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him.”

Deuteronomy 11:26

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

Deuteronomy 30:1

“And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,

Deuteronomy 30:15

“See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil.

Deuteronomy 30:16

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deuteronomy 32:1

“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 4:1

“And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you, and do them; that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you.

Deuteronomy 4:25

“When you beget children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:6

Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

Deuteronomy 6:2

that you may fear the Lord you God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

1 Timothy 5:21

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without favor, doing nothing from partiality.