Deuteronomy 5:29 Cross References - BBE

²⁹ If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

⁴⁰ Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

¹⁶ Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

³ So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁸ And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

¹ So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

²⁵ Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

²⁸ Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

¹³ Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

⁷ See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long.

²⁹ If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future! ³⁰ How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

¹ And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?

¹¹ By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.

¹³ If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways! ¹⁴ I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them. ¹⁵ The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.

³ Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

¹ ALEPH Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord. ² Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart. ³ They do no evil; they go in his ways. ⁴ You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care. ⁵ If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

¹⁰ Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

¹⁸ If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

¹⁴ Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red. ¹⁵ Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

⁴ And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.

³¹ And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. ³² And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

⁴² Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

¹ We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

³ So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

²⁵ See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

²⁵ But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

¹⁴ A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.