Old Testament · Law

Deuteronomy chapter 30

When all of this comes true for you — both the and the that I’ve laid out for you — and you while you’re living among all the nations where Yahweh your God has scattered you,and you to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice — following everything I’m commanding you today, you and your children, with your whole heart and —then Yahweh your God will and have on you. He will gather you back from all the nations where Yahweh your God scattered you.Even if you’ve been driven to , Yahweh your God will gather you from there and bring you back from there.Yahweh your God will bring you into the land that your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it. He will make you even more than your ancestors — and with even greater numbers.Yahweh your God will — and the hearts of your descendants — so that you love Yahweh your God with your whole heart and your whole being, so that you .Yahweh your God will put all these devastating consequences on your enemies instead — on those who hated you and pursued you.And you — you will and listen to the voice of Yahweh and follow all his that I’m commanding you today.Yahweh your God will make you abundantly successful in everything you put your hand to — in your children, in your livestock, in your crops — because Yahweh will once again in making things go well for you, just as he took delight in your ancestors.— but only when you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and keep his instructions and principles that are written in this , and only when you return to Yahweh your God with your whole heart and your whole being.Because this instruction that I’m giving you today — it’s not for you. It’s not out of your reach.It’s not up in the sky, so that you’d have to say, ‘Who’s going to go up to the sky for us to get it and bring it back so we can hear it and live by it?’And it’s not across the sea, so that you’d have to say, ‘Who’s going to cross the sea for us to get it and bring it back so we can hear it and live by it?’No — is incredibly close to you. It’s in your mouth and , ready for you to live by it.Look — I’m setting in front of you today: and what’s good, or death and .What I’m telling you today is this: Love Yahweh your God, , and keep his instructions, his principles, and his decisions — and you will live and multiply, and Yahweh your God will make things go well for you in the land you’re going in to possess.But if and you won’t listen — if you get pulled away and bow down to other gods and serve them —I’m telling you plainly today: you will be . You will not last long in the land that you’re crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.I’m calling the sky and the earth as against you today: I have set in front of you life and death, and . — so that you and your descendants will truly live —by loving Yahweh your God, listening to his voice, and . Because and — so that you can live in the land that Yahweh promised to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.