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Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 4:29 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • KJV But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
  • NKJV But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • NASB But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.
  • NLT But from there you will search again for the Lord your God. And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will find him.

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Quick answer

Even after judgment, if Israel seeks God wholeheartedly they will find him. God remains findable to the truly repentant.

Overview

Looking ahead to exile, Moses promises that a wholehearted, whole-souled search for Yahweh will not be in vain. This anticipates the demand of 6:5 to love God with all the heart and soul, and reveals a God who restores the penitent rather than abandoning them. The promise that seekers find God is echoed by Jesus (Matthew 7:7-8) and fulfilled in the gospel, where Christ is sought and found by faith.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Ps 119:2Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
  • Jer 29:12–14Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
  • 2 Chr 15:4But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.
  • Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
  • Ps 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
  • Deut 30:10if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • Jer 3:12–14Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  • 1 Kgs 8:47–48and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
  • Deut 30:1–3“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
  • Ps 119:145I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.
  • Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
  • Ps 119:58I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.
  • 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.
  • 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.’
  • 2 Chr 15:15And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their heart. They had sought Him earnestly, and He was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.
  • 2 Chr 15:12Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
  • 2 Kgs 10:31Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
  • 2 Kgs 23:3So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
  • Lev 26:39–42Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
  • 2 Chr 31:21He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.

Themes, concepts, people & topics

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Deuteronomy videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

    Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on DeuteronomyMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).

How Deuteronomy 4:29 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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