Deuteronomy 30:17

But if thy heart turns away, and thou will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

In Context

16in that I command thee this day to love LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou may live and multiply, and that LORD thy God may bless thee in the land where th

18I declare to you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Ye shall not prolong your days in the land where thou pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away. Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Joshua 22:15And they came to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

1 Samuel 12:25But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

Proverbs 1:32For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.

Hebrews 3:12Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 30:16-20

15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall… Read the whole commentary →

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