Love and Serve the Lord
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e "You shall therefore love the Lord your God and f keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
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And consider today (since I am not speaking to g your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, h his greatness, i his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,
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j his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land,
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and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, k how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day,
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and l what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place,
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and m what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.
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For your eyes have seen n all the great work of the Lord that he did.
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"You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may o be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess,
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and p that you may live long in the land q that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, r a land flowing with milk and honey.
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For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables.
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s But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,
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a land that the Lord your God cares for. t The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
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"And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, u to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
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v he will give the rain for your land in its season, w the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
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x And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and y you shall eat and be full.
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Take care z lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and a serve other gods and worship them;
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then b the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he c will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and d you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
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e "You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and f you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
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You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
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g You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
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h that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, i as long as the heavens are above the earth.
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For if j 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 k holding fast to him,
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then the Lord l will drive out all these nations before you, and you will m dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
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n Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be o from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.
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p No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay q the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, r as he promised you.
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s "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
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t the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today,
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and u the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, v to go after other gods that you have not known.
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And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set w the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
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Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the x Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside y the oak of Moreh?
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For you are z to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it,
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you shall be careful a to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
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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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Ezekiel 44:16
They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
Leviticus 8:35
At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the Lord has charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.
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Deuteronomy 31:13
And that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.
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Deuteronomy 3:24
O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?
Deuteronomy 5:24
And you said, 'Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live.
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Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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Deuteronomy 6:22
And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.
Deuteronomy 7:19
The great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
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Exodus 14:27 - 28
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.
Exodus 15:9 - 10
The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.
Psalms 106:11
And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.
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Psalms 78:14 - 40
In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
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Numbers 16:1
Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.
Numbers 16:31
And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.
Numbers 27:3
Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. And he had no sons.
Psalms 106:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
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Judges 2:7
And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel.
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Deuteronomy 31:6 - 7
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
Joshua 1:6 - 7
Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.
Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:18
Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.
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Deuteronomy 4:40
Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
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Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Deuteronomy 8:7
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills.
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1 Kings 9:3
And the Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
Jeremiah 24:6
I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
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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 28:12
The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Leviticus 26:4
Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
Jeremiah 5:24
They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.
Hosea 6:3
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord ; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.
Joel 2:23
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
James 5:7
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
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Psalms 104:14
You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth
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Deuteronomy 6:11
And houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant - and when you eat and are full.
Joel 2:19
The Lord answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
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Job 31:27
And my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand.
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Deuteronomy 11:28
And the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
Deuteronomy 6:14
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you -
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Deuteronomy 6:15
For the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God - lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
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1 Kings 8:35
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain bec...
2 Chronicles 6:26
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain bec...
2 Chronicles 7:13
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no ...
Deuteronomy 28:23 - 24
And the heavens over your head shall be bronze,...
Leviticus 26:19 - 20
And I will break the pride of your power, and I...
Amos 4:7
I also withheld the rain from you when there we...
Zechariah 14:17
And if any of the families of the earth do not ...
Revelation 11:6
They have the power to shut the sky, that no ra...
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Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 30:18
I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.
Joshua 23:15 - 16
But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you.
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Deuteronomy 6:6
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
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Deuteronomy 6:8
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
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Deuteronomy 6:9
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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Deuteronomy 4:40
Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
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Psalms 89:29
I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
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Deuteronomy 6:17
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
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Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.
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Deuteronomy 4:38
Driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
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Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
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Joshua 1:3
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
Joshua 14:9
And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.
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Exodus 23:31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
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Deuteronomy 7:24
And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
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Deuteronomy 2:25
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.
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Exodus 23:27
I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
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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 today life and good, death and evil.
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.
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Deuteronomy 28:2 - 14
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
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Deuteronomy 28:15 - 45
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
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Deuteronomy 6:14
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you -
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Deuteronomy 27:12 - 13
When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Joshua 8:33
And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
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Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety.
Joshua 1:11
"Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, 'Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.'"
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Deuteronomy 5:32
You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy 12:32
Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.
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