Deuteronomy 10:12-16

Circumcise Your Heart

¹² "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, ¹³ and _l to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today _m for your good? ¹⁴ Behold, _n to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, _o the earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ Circumcise therefore _q the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer _r stubborn.

1. Cross References
   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?
   
2. Cross References
   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.
   
3. Cross References
   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.
   
4. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 6:5
   You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 7:11
   You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
   
6. Cross References
   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.
   
7. Cross References
   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?
   
8. Cross References
   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.
   
9. Cross References
   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.
   
10. Cross References
    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.
    
11. Cross References
    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.