Returning to the Lord
1 “When all these things happen to you — the blessings and curses I have set before you — and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where theLordyour God has driven you,
2 and you and your children return to theLordyour God and obey Him with all your heart and all your soulby doingeverything I am giving you today,
3 then He will restore your fortunes,have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where theLordyour God has scattered you.
4 Even if your exiles are at the ends of the earth,He will gather you and bring you back from there.
5 TheLordyour God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it.He will cause you to prosper and multiply you more than He did your fathers.
6 TheLordyour God will circumcise your heartand the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.
7 TheLordyour God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.
8 Then you will again obey Him and follow all His commands I am giving you today.
9 TheLordyour God will make you prosper abundantly in all the work of your handswith children,the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce. Indeed, theLordwill again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
10 when you obey theLordyour God by keeping His commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to Him with all your heart and all your soul.
Choose Life
11 “This command that I give you today is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach.
12 It is not in heaven so that you have to ask, ‘Who will go up to heaven, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it? ’
13 And it is not across the sea so that you have to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it? ’
14 But the message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may follow it.
15 See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.
16 ForI am commanding you today to love theLordyour God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may liveand multiply, and theLordyour God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
17 But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow down to other gods and worship them,
18 I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not live long in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan.
19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose lifeso that you and your descendants may live,
20 love theLordyour God, obey Him, and remain faithfulto Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land theLordswore to give to your fathersAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
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