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 48:18Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
• Ezek 33:31–32They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
• Deut 11:1Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
• Matt 23:37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
• Luke 19:42saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
• Deut 4:40You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
• Deut 5:16“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• Deut 32:29–30Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
• Ps 81:13–15Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
• Ps 119:1–5ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
• 2 Cor 5:20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
• Eph 6:3“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
• John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
• Isa 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
• Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
• Jer 44:4However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
• Jer 22:14–15who says, ‘I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
• Deut 6:3Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Ruth 3:1Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
• Deut 12:25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
• Deut 19:13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
• Ps 19:11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
• Deut 12:28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
• Ps 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
• Deut 22:7You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
• Deut 6:18You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
• Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

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