Deuteronomy 5:29

God longs that Israel would have a heart to fear and obey him always for their lasting good. The problem is not the law but the human heart.

Cross-references · 30

• Isa 48:18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
• Ezek 33:31–32So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
• Deut 11:1You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
• Matt 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
• Luke 19:42and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
• Deut 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
• Deut 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Deut 32:29–30If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
• Ps 81:13–15If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
• Ps 119:1–5Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
• 2 Cor 5:20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
• 2 Cor 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
• Jas 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
• Eph 6:3“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
• John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
• Isa 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
• Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
• Jer 44:4Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
• Jer 22:14–15who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
• Deut 6:3Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
• Ruth 3:1One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?
• Deut 12:25Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
• Deut 19:13You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
• Ps 19:11By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
• Deut 12:28Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
• Ps 106:3Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
• Deut 22:7You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
• Deut 6:18Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
• Heb 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

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