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Deuteronomy 30:15

Guidance and decisionsObedienceEternal life

13 And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

14 But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.

16 For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

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Compare

BSB
See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.
KJV
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
WEB
Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
ASV
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
DARBY
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,
BLB
See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil,
ÅB
Se, jeg har idag lagt fram for deg livet og det gode, og døden og det onde,
OTB
Se, jeg legger fram for deg i dag liv og velstand, død og motgang.
B1930
Se, jeg har idag lagt frem for dig livet og det gode, og døden og det onde,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 11:26

    See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

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  • Deuteronomy 30:19

    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

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  • Deuteronomy 30:1

    “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,

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  • Galatians 3:13–14

    Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

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  • 1 John 5:11–12

    And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:1–14

    “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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  • Deuteronomy 32:47

    For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

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  • Mark 16:16

    Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

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