Deuteronomy 4:9

Israel must guard their souls, not forget what they saw, and teach it to their children. It stresses remembrance and passing on the faith.

Cross-references · 31

• Deut 6:7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
• Deut 11:19Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
• Ps 78:3–8that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
• Gen 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
• Deut 32:46he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
• Eph 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• Exod 13:8–9And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
• Deut 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
• Prov 4:20–23My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
• Prov 4:1–13Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
• Prov 23:26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
• Rev 3:3Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
• Prov 3:1–3My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
• Prov 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
• Ps 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
• Heb 2:1We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
• Prov 3:21My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment.
• Josh 4:6–7to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
• Ps 34:11–16Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
• Josh 4:21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
• Exod 13:14–16In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
• Prov 7:1My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
• Heb 2:3how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
• Deut 4:23Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
• Isa 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
• Jas 2:22You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.
• Deut 31:19Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
• Luke 8:18Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
• Deut 4:15So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
• Josh 1:18Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words, all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!”

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