If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
Parallel translations
- KJV If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
- BSB If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
- NKJV “Ifhis sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments,
- NASB ¶“If his sons abandon My Law And do not walk in My judgments,
- NLT But if his descendants forsake my instructions and fail to obey my regulations,
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- 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
- 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
- Ps 119:53Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.
- Prov 28:4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
- Ps 132:12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
- Ezek 18:17who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
- Ezek 20:19I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;
- 2 Chr 7:17–22“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
- Jer 9:13–16Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
- Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Prov 4:2for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.
- Ezek 18:9has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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