Deuteronomy 30:17

And if your heart turns, and you do not listen, and have been drawn away, and have bowed yourself to other gods and served them,

Literal Standard 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 today I am commanding you to love your God YHWH, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and you have lived and multiplied, and your God YHWH has blessed you in the land to where you are going in to possess it.

18I have declared to you this day that you certainly perish, you do not prolong days on the ground which you are passing over the Jordan to go in there to possess it.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:17And he does not multiply wives for himself, and his heart does not turn aside, and he does not exceedingly multiply silver and gold for himself.

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

1 Samuel 12:25and if you really do evil, both you and your king are consumed.”

Proverbs 1:32For the turning of the simple slays them, || And the security of the foolish destroys them.

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

Hebrews 3:12Watch out, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away 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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