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Deuteronomy 4:29

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.
Deuteronomy 4:29 · New American 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
  • Jer 29:12–14You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
  • 2 Chr 15:4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
  • Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
  • Ps 119:10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
  • Deut 30:10if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
  • Jer 3:12–14Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
  • 1 Kgs 8:47–48yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
  • Deut 30:1–3It 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,
  • Ps 119:145I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.
  • Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
  • Ps 119:58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
  • Jer 3:10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
  • Neh 1:9but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
  • 2 Chr 15:15All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.
  • 2 Chr 15:12They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
  • 2 Kgs 23:3The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
  • Lev 26:39–42Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
  • 2 Chr 31:21In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, 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

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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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