Circumcise Your Heart
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"And now, Israel, h what does the Lord your God require of you, but i to fear the Lord your God, j to walk in all his ways, k to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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and l to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today m for your good?
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Behold, n to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, o the earth with all that is in it.
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Yet p the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
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Circumcise therefore q the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer r stubborn.
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For the Lord your God is s God of gods and t Lord of lords, u the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is v not partial and takes no bribe.
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w He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
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x Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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i You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and y hold fast to him, and z by his name you shall swear.
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a He is your praise. He is your God, b who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.
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Your fathers went down to Egypt c seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you d as numerous as the stars of heaven.
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Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Deuteronomy 6:2
That you may fear the Lord your 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 long.
Deuteronomy 6:13
It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.
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Deuteronomy 5:33
You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
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Deuteronomy 7:11
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
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Deuteronomy 6:24
And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.
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1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
2 Chronicles 6:18
But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
Nehemiah 9:6
You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
Psalms 115:16
The heavens are the Lord 's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
Isaiah 66:1
Thus says the Lord : "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
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Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
Psalms 24:1
The earth is the Lord 's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.
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Deuteronomy 4:37
And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power.
Deuteronomy 7:7
It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord ; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
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Deuteronomy 9:6
Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.
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Joshua 22:22
The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today
Psalms 136:2
Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Daniel 2:47
The king answered and said to Daniel, "Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.
Daniel 11:36
And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.
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Revelation 17:14
They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.
Revelation 19:16
On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
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Nehemiah 9:32
Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.
Deuteronomy 7:21
You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
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2 Chronicles 19:7
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you....
Job 34:19
Who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards...
Acts 10:34
So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I un...
Romans 2:11
For God shows no partiality.
Galatians 2:6
And from those who seemed to be influential (wh...
Ephesians 6:9
Masters, do the same to them, and stop your thr...
Colossians 3:25
For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wro...
1 Peter 1:17
And if you call on him as Father who judges imp...
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Psalms 68:5
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 146:9
The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge.
Exodus 22:22
You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
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Exodus 22:21
You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9
You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:33 - 34
When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Deuteronomy 11:22
For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him.
Deuteronomy 13:4
You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.
Deuteronomy 30:20
Loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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Deuteronomy 6:13
It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.
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Psalms 22:3
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Psalms 109:1
Be not silent, O God of my praise!
Jeremiah 17:14
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
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2 Samuel 7:23
And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
Psalms 106:21 - 22
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt.
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Genesis 46:27
And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
Exodus 1:5
All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
Acts 7:14
And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
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Deuteronomy 28:62
Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
Nehemiah 9:23
You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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