Deuteronomy 30:19

Calling heaven and earth as witnesses, Moses urges them to choose life. God earnestly pleads with people to choose life and blessing.

Cross-references · 21

• Deut 30:15Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
• Deut 11:26Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
• Ps 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
• Josh 24:15–22If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
• Prov 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
• Deut 30:1It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
• Luke 10:42but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
• Jer 32:39and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
• 1 Tim 5:21I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
• Acts 2:39For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
• Ps 119:173Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
• Deut 31:28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
• Mic 6:1–2Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
• Ps 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
• Prov 1:29because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
• Isa 1:2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Deut 32:1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
• Jer 22:29–30O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!
• Jer 2:12–13“Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 56:4For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant:

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