and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
Parallel translations
- WEB and return to Yahweh your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
- KJV And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
- NKJV and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
- NASB and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul in accordance with everything that I am commanding you today, you and your sons,
- NLT If at that time you and your children return to the Lord your God, and if you obey with all your heart and all your soul all the commands I have given you today,
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Quick answer
If they return to God and obey wholeheartedly, restoration follows. Genuine, heartfelt repentance is the way back to God.
Overview
Moses describes the turning point: returning to the Lord and obeying 'with all your heart, and with all your soul.' True repentance is whole-souled, not merely outward. This call to wholehearted return runs throughout Scripture and is answered in the gospel, where God grants both the repentance and the new heart that enable such return.
Cross-references & the web
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- Joel 2:12–13“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
- Deut 4:28–31And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- Neh 1:9but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
- 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Eph 6:24Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
- Lam 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
- 2 Cor 3:16But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
- 1 Chr 29:9And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.
- Jer 3:10Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
- Deut 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
- Hos 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
- Ps 41:12In my integrity You uphold me and set me in Your presence forever.
- Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- Ps 119:80May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
- Hos 6:1–2Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- Jer 29:13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
- Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Hos 14:1–3Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
- 1 Chr 29:17I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
- Deut 13:3you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Lam 3:32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
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