the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
Parallel translations
- KJV A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
- BSB a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
- NKJV the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today;
- NASB the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today;
- NLT You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today.
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- Isa 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
- Deut 28:1–14It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Isa 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
- Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
- Lev 26:3–13“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
- John 14:21–23One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
- Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
- Ps 19:11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
- Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
- Rev 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
- Matt 25:31–46“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
- Matt 5:3–12“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
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