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Deuteronomy 4:29

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.
Deuteronomy 4:29 · King James Version
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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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 they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
  • Jer 29:12–14Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
  • 2 Chr 15:4But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
  • Isa 55:6–7Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
  • Ps 119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • Deut 30:10If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
  • Jer 3:12–14Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
  • 1 Kgs 8:47–48Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
  • Deut 30:1–3And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
  • Ps 119:145I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
  • Joel 2:12Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
  • Ps 119:58I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
  • Jer 3:10And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
  • Neh 1:9But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
  • 2 Chr 15:15And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
  • 2 Chr 15:12And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
  • 2 Kgs 10:31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
  • 2 Kgs 23:3And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
  • Lev 26:39–42And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
  • 2 Chr 31:21And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Themes, concepts, people & topics

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Deuteronomy videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Deuteronomy 4:29YouTube · Lay · Free

    Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.

  • 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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