Deuteronomy 6 (NET)

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Deuteronomy 6:1¹Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headedCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:1 Deut 12:1 Deut 4:45 Deut 5:31 Lev 27:34 Deut 4:14 Deut 4:5 Ezek 37:24 Num 36:13

Deuteronomy 6:2²and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you—you, your children, and your grandchildren—all your lives, to prolong your days.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:40 Deut 13:4 Eccl 12:13 Exod 20:20 Prov 3:1-2 Ps 128:1 Prov 3:16 1 Pet 3:10-11 Deut 5:16 Job 28:28

Deuteronomy 6:3³Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number —as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 22:17 Exod 3:8 Gen 15:5 Gen 26:4 Gen 28:14 Isa 3:10 Acts 7:17 Deut 4:6 Deut 5:32-33 Eccl 8:12

Deuteronomy 6:7⁷and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 11:19 Eph 6:4 Ps 78:4-6 1 Pet 3:15 Deut 4:9-10 Deut 6:2 Eph 4:29 Gen 18:19 Prov 6:22 Exod 12:26-27

Deuteronomy 6:8⁸You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 6:21 Deut 11:18 Prov 3:3 Exod 13:9 Prov 7:3 Exod 13:16 Num 15:38-39 Heb 2:1 Matt 23:5

Deuteronomy 6:10¹⁰Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you—a land with large, fine cities you did not build,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 24:13 Ps 105:44 Neh 9:25 Gen 26:3 Ps 78:55 Gen 13:15-17 Gen 15:18 Gen 28:13

Deuteronomy 6:11¹¹houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn-out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—and you eat your fill,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:12-18 Deut 8:10-20 Ezek 16:10-20 Jer 2:31-32 Deut 32:15 Prov 30:8-9 Judg 3:7 Matt 19:23-24

Deuteronomy 6:12¹²be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, that place of slavery.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 6:15¹⁵for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God—his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:24 Exod 20:5 Deut 11:17 Deut 7:4 1 Kgs 13:34 2 Chr 36:16 Amos 3:2 Amos 9:8 Deut 5:9 Exod 32:12

Deuteronomy 6:17¹⁷Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 11:22 Ps 119:4 1 Cor 15:58 2 Pet 1:5-10 2 Pet 3:14 Exod 15:26 Heb 6:11 Titus 3:8 Deut 11:13 Deut 6:1-2

Deuteronomy 6:18¹⁸Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:40 Deut 12:25 Deut 5:29 Rom 12:2 Ezek 18:5 John 8:29 Deut 12:28 Deut 13:18 Deut 8:11 Exod 15:26

Deuteronomy 6:19¹⁹and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the Lord said.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 23:28-30 Num 33:52-53 Judg 2:1-3 Judg 3:1-4

Deuteronomy 6:20²⁰When your children ask you later on, “What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 13:14 Exod 12:26 Josh 4:21-24 Josh 4:6-7 Deut 6:7

Deuteronomy 6:21²¹you must say to them, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 2:11-12 Rom 6:17-18 Deut 15:15 Deut 5:6 Exod 20:2 Deut 26:5-9 Deut 5:15 Exod 13:3 Exod 3:19 Isa 51:1

Deuteronomy 6:22²²And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:34 Ps 58:10-11 Deut 7:19 Ps 91:8 Deut 1:30 Deut 3:21 Deut 4:3 Exod 14:1-31 Exod 7:1-12 Ps 135:9

Deuteronomy 6:23²³He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 6:18 Deut 1:8 Deut 6:10 Exod 13:5 Deut 1:35

Deuteronomy 6:24²⁴The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:39 Ps 41:2 Deut 10:12-13 Isa 3:10 Deut 4:1 Deut 8:1 Rom 10:5 Rom 6:21-22 Deut 4:4 Deut 8:3

Deuteronomy 6:25²⁵We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 24:13 Rom 10:3 Jas 2:10 Luke 10:28-29 Prov 12:28 Ps 106:30-31 Ps 119:6 Rom 10:5-6 Ezek 20:11 Gal 3:12

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