Deuteronomy 8:1

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Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

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  • Deut 4:1 : 1 And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
  • Deut 5:32-6:3 : 32 Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left. 33 Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage. 1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going: 2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long. 3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Ps 119:4-6 : 4 You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care. 5 If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules! 6 Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more. 2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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  • Deut 11:8-9
    2 verses
    87%

    8So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

    9And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 30:16
    85%

    16In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

  • Deut 6:1-3
    3 verses
    83%

    1Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

    2So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

    3So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 12:1
    82%

    1These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

  • Deut 1:8
    82%

    8See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Deut 30:8
    81%

    8And you will again give ear to the voice of the Lord, and do all his orders which I have given you today.

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

    18And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Deut 4:1
    80%

    1And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

  • Deut 30:20
    80%

    20In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  • Deut 5:33
    80%

    33Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

  • Deut 4:40
    80%

    40Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • 1 Chr 28:8
    80%

    8So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.

  • Deut 11:32
    79%

    32And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

  • Deut 1:18
    79%

    18And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.

  • Deut 4:5
    79%

    5I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.

  • Deut 12:28
    79%

    28Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 27:10
    79%

    10For this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and do his orders and his laws which I give you this day.

  • Deut 13:18
    79%

    18So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 28:1
    78%

    1Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

  • Deut 8:2
    78%

    2And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

  • Deut 10:13
    78%

    13Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

  • Deut 32:46-47
    2 verses
    78%

    46Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

    47And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Deut 7:11
    78%

    11So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

  • Deut 11:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

    21So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

    22For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:

  • Deut 4:14
    78%

    14And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions, so that you might do them in the land to which you are going, and which is to be your heritage.

  • Deut 27:1
    78%

    1Then Moses and the responsible men of Israel gave the people these orders: Keep all the orders which I have given you this day;

  • Deut 19:8
    78%

    8And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;

  • Deut 8:6
    77%

    6Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his ways.

  • Deut 8:11
    77%

    11Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

  • Deut 5:31
    77%

    31But as for you, keep your place here by me, and I will give you all the orders and the laws and the decisions which you are to make clear to them, so that they may do them in the land which I am giving them for their heritage.

  • Deut 29:9
    77%

    9So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

  • Deut 11:27
    77%

    27The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you this day:

  • Deut 6:24
    77%

    24And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.

  • Deut 26:16
    77%

    16Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul.

  • Deut 15:5
    77%

    5If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
    76%

    61Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

  • Deut 11:1
    76%

    1So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

  • Deut 4:38
    76%

    38Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Josh 1:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.

    7Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.

  • 1 Kgs 8:58
    76%

    58Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    76%

    40So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Deut 28:9
    76%

    9The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.

  • 1 Kgs 2:3
    75%

    3And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,