Deuteronomy 5:29

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Oh, that their hearts would always fear Me and keep all My commands, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Oh that there were such{H2088} a{H4310} heart{H3824} in them,{H5414} that they would fear{H3372} me, and keep{H8104} all my commandments{H4687} always,{H3117} that it might be well{H3190} with them, and with their children{H1121} for ever!{H5769}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    O that there were such{H2088} an{H4310} heart{H3824} in them{H5414}{(H8799)}, that they would fear{H3372}{(H8800)} me, and keep{H8104}{(H8800)} all my commandments{H4687} always{H3117}, that it might be well{H3190}{(H8799)} with them, and with their children{H1121} for ever{H5769}!

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Oh that they had soche an herte with them to feare me ad kepe all my commaundmentes alwaye, that it myghte goo well with them and with their childern for euer.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But who shal geue them soch an herte, yt they maye feare me, & kepe all my comaundementes as longe as they lyue, yt it maye go well with them, and with their childre for euer?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Oh that there were such an heart in them to feare me, & to keepe all my commandements alway: that it might go well with them, and with their children for euer.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Oh that there were such an heart in them that they woulde feare me, & kepe all my comaundementes alway, that it myght go well with them, and with their childen for euer?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons -- to the age!

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 48:18 : 18 If only you had paid attention to My commands, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
  • Ezek 33:31-32 : 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain. 32 Indeed, to them you are like someone who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays the instrument well. They listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Keep His statutes and commandments that I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  • Deut 11:1 : 1 You shall love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • Luke 19:42 : 42 He said, 'If you had known on this day, even you, the things that would bring you peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.'
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
  • 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 As workers together with Him, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
  • Eph 6:3 : 3 so that it may go well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?
  • Jas 1:25 : 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres—not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—this person will be blessed in what he does.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who keep His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 But He replied, 'Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.'
  • Jer 22:14-15 : 14 He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion. 15 Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Your father ate and drank, but he practiced justice and righteousness, and it went well with him.
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 I sent you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying: 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.'
  • Deut 6:3 : 3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey, so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.
  • Deut 6:18 : 18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well with you, and you may go in and possess the good land the LORD promised to your ancestors.
  • Deut 12:25 : 25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
  • Deut 12:28 : 28 Be careful to obey all these words I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
  • Deut 19:13 : 13 Do not pity him, but purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
  • Deut 22:7 : 7 You must send the mother bird away, but you may take the young for yourself. This will ensure that it goes well with you, and you will have a long life.
  • Deut 32:29-30 : 29 If only they were wise and would understand this, they would comprehend their latter end. 30 How could one chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and the LORD had handed them over?
  • Ruth 3:1 : 1 Then Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, 'My daughter, should I not seek a home for you where you will be well taken care of?'
  • Ps 19:11 : 11 They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
  • Ps 81:13-15 : 13 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts to follow their own counsels. 14 Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! 15 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their adversaries.
  • Ps 106:3 : 3 Blessed are those who keep justice and do what is righteous at all times.
  • Ps 119:1-5 : 1 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with all their heart. 3 Indeed, they do no wrong; they walk in His ways. 4 You have commanded Your precepts to be kept diligently. 5 Oh, that my ways were steadfast in keeping Your statutes!
  • Isa 3:10 : 10 Tell the righteous that it will go well for them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 32:39-40
    2 verses
    79%

    39 I will give them one heart and one way so that they may always fear Me, for their own good and the good of their children after them.

    40 I will make with them an everlasting covenant; I will never turn away from doing good to them. I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me.

  • Deut 12:28
    77%

    28 Be careful to obey all these words I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
    76%

    31 so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live on the face of the earth, which You gave to our ancestors.

  • Deut 4:40
    75%

    40 Keep His statutes and commandments that I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    75%

    40 so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land You gave to our ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 8:58
    75%

    58 May He turn our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commands, statutes, and judgments, which He gave to our ancestors.

  • Deut 4:10
    75%

    10 Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Assemble the people for Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and to teach them to their children.'

  • 1 Chr 29:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 LORD, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep these intentions and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and direct their hearts toward you.

    19 And give my son Solomon an undivided heart to keep your commandments, your statutes, and your decrees, and to carry out all these plans, building the temple for which I have made preparations.

  • Deut 15:5
    74%

    5 If only you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being diligent to observe all these commandments that I am commanding you today.

  • Deut 5:28
    74%

    28 The LORD heard your words when you spoke to me, and He said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

  • 1 Chr 28:8
    74%

    8 Now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek all the commandments of the LORD your God so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance for your descendants forever.

  • Deut 29:9
    74%

    9 All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—your leaders, your tribes, your elders, your officers, every man of Israel.

  • Isa 29:13
    74%

    13 The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'

  • Deut 5:30
    74%

    30 Go and tell them to return to their tents.

  • Deut 6:2
    74%

    2 So that you may fear the LORD your God by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I am commanding you today—you, your children, and your grandchildren—all the days of your life, and so your days may be prolonged.

  • Deut 31:13
    74%

    13 And their children, who do not know it yet, will hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

  • Jer 7:23
    73%

    23 But this is what I commanded them: Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, so that it may go well with you.

  • Deut 32:29
    73%

    29 If only they were wise and would understand this, they would comprehend their latter end.

  • Deut 17:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 It shall remain with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes to follow them.

    20 In this way, his heart will not become proud above his fellow Israelites, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left. He and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in the midst of Israel.

  • Ps 81:13
    73%

    13 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts to follow their own counsels.

  • Deut 30:10
    73%

    10 if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.

  • Deut 10:13
    73%

    13 and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes that I am commanding you today for your own good?

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
    73%

    61 May your hearts be fully devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as it is today.

  • Deut 11:27
    73%

    27 the blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,

  • Ps 119:5
    73%

    5 Oh, that my ways were steadfast in keeping Your statutes!

  • Deut 11:13
    72%

    13 If you indeed obey my commandments that I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul—

  • Deut 11:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 so that your days and the days of your children may be prolonged in the land that the LORD swore to give to your ancestors, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

    22 For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

  • Deut 30:20
    72%

    20 loving the LORD your God, obeying His voice, and holding fast to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give them.

  • Deut 6:24
    72%

    24 The LORD commanded us to obey all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God for our own good always, so that He might preserve our lives, as it is today.

  • Deut 32:46
    72%

    46 he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.

  • Prov 8:32
    72%

    32 Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • Josh 22:24
    72%

    24 We did this because we feared that someday your descendants might say to ours, ‘What do you have to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?’

  • Ps 78:7
    72%

    7 so they would put their trust in God and not forget His deeds but keep His commandments.

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
    72%

    6 'But if you or your descendants turn away from Me and do not keep My commands and statutes that I have given you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them,

  • 2 Chr 29:10
    72%

    10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger may turn away from us.

  • Deut 28:58
    72%

    58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law that are written in this book, and do not fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

  • Deut 30:2
    72%

    2 and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and soul, you and your children, according to all that I command you today,

  • Ps 34:11
    72%

    11 Young lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

  • Deut 5:10
    71%

    10 But showing steadfast love to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

  • Ps 89:30
    71%

    30 I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.

  • Deut 30:16
    71%

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

  • Lev 26:3
    71%

    3 If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and carry them out,

  • Exod 20:6
    71%

    6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.