28 And now, abide in him, my little-children; in order that we should have boldness whenever he is manifested, and in his presence, we should not be shamed away from him.
Bible verses about "choices" | MLV
1 John 2:28
Proverbs 3:5-6
2 Corinthians 5:9-10
Deuteronomy 28:1-68
1 And it will happen, if you will listen diligently to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Jehovah your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth,
2 and all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God:
3 You will be blessed in the city and you will be blessed in the field. 4 The fruit of your body will be blessed and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. 5 Your basket and your kneading-trough will be blessed. 6 You will be blessed when you come in and you will be blessed when you go out.
7 Jehovah will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways. 8 Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to. And he will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
9 Jehovah will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you will keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in his ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Jehovah and they will be afraid of you.
11 And Jehovah will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.
12 Jehovah will open to you his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. And you will lend to many nations and you will not borrow.
13 And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail. And you will only be above and you will not be beneath, if you will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do, 14 and will not turn aside from any of the words which I command you* this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 But it will happen, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 You will be cursed in the city and you will be cursed in the field. 17 Your basket and your kneading-trough will be cursed. 18 The fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock will be cursed. 19 You will be cursed when you come in and you be will cursed when you go out. 20 Jehovah will send upon you cursing, confusion and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your practices, by which you have forsaken me.
21 Jehovah will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from the land, where you go in to possess it. 22 Jehovah will kill* you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew. And they will pursue you until you perish.
23 And your sky that is over your head will be brass and the earth that is under you will be iron. 24 Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust. From the sky it will come down upon you, until you are destroyed.
25 Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and will flee seven ways before them. And you will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And your dead body will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth and there will be none to frighten them away.
27 Jehovah will kill* you with the boils of Egypt and with the tumors and with the scurvy and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed.
28 Jehovah will kill* you with madness and with blindness and with confusion of mind, 29 and you will grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And you will not prosper in your ways. And you will only be oppressed and robbed always and there will be none to save you.
30 You will betroth a wife and another man will lie with her. You will build a house and you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard and will not use the fruit of it. 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes and you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies and you will have none to save you. 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. And your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all the day and there will be nothing in the power of your hand. 33 The fruit of your ground and all your labors, will a nation eat up which you do not know. And you will only be oppressed and crushed always, 34 so that you will be mad because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
35 Jehovah will kill* you in the knees and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 Jehovah will bring you and your king whom you will set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. And there you will serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And you will become an astonishment, a proverb and a parable, among all the peoples where Jehovah will lead you away.
38 You will carry much seed out into the field and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it. 39 You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olive will drop off. 41 You will beget sons and daughters, but they will not be your, for they will go into captivity. 42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground will the locust possess.
43 The traveler who is in the midst of you will mount up above you higher and higher and you will come down lower and lower. 44 He will lend to you and you will not lend to him. He will be the head and you will be the tail.
45 And all these curses will come upon you and will pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you listened not to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you, 46 and they will be upon you for a sign and for a wonder and upon your seed everlasting. 47 Because you served not Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you will serve your enemies that Jehovah will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things. And he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
49 Jehovah will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, that will not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, 51 and will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed, that also will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. 52 And they will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. And they will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you.
53 And you will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you. 54 The man who is tender among you* and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining, 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you*, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter, 57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet and toward her sons whom she will bear, for she will eat them secretly for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD, 59 then Jehovah will make your calamities extraordinary and the calamities of your seed, even great calamities and of long continuance and severe sicknesses and of long continuance.
60 And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of and they will cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them Jehovah will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 And you* will be left few in number, in that you* were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.
63 And it will happen, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you* to do you* good and to multiply you*, so Jehovah will rejoice over you* to cause you* to perish and to destroy you*. And you* will be plucked from the land where you go in to possess it.
64 And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And you will serve other gods there, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone ones.
65 And among these nations you will find no ease and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot, but Jehovah will give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and pining of soul. 66 And your life will hang in doubt before you and you will fear night and day and will have no assurance of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, Would it were evening! and at evening you will say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you will fear and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 And Jehovah will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will see it no more again. And there you* will sell yourselves to your* enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen and no man will buy you*.
3 You will be blessed in the city and you will be blessed in the field. 4 The fruit of your body will be blessed and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. 5 Your basket and your kneading-trough will be blessed. 6 You will be blessed when you come in and you will be blessed when you go out.
7 Jehovah will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways. 8 Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to. And he will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
9 Jehovah will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you will keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in his ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Jehovah and they will be afraid of you.
11 And Jehovah will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.
12 Jehovah will open to you his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. And you will lend to many nations and you will not borrow.
13 And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail. And you will only be above and you will not be beneath, if you will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do, 14 and will not turn aside from any of the words which I command you* this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 But it will happen, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 You will be cursed in the city and you will be cursed in the field. 17 Your basket and your kneading-trough will be cursed. 18 The fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock will be cursed. 19 You will be cursed when you come in and you be will cursed when you go out. 20 Jehovah will send upon you cursing, confusion and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your practices, by which you have forsaken me.
21 Jehovah will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from the land, where you go in to possess it. 22 Jehovah will kill* you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew. And they will pursue you until you perish.
23 And your sky that is over your head will be brass and the earth that is under you will be iron. 24 Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust. From the sky it will come down upon you, until you are destroyed.
25 Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and will flee seven ways before them. And you will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And your dead body will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth and there will be none to frighten them away.
27 Jehovah will kill* you with the boils of Egypt and with the tumors and with the scurvy and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed.
28 Jehovah will kill* you with madness and with blindness and with confusion of mind, 29 and you will grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And you will not prosper in your ways. And you will only be oppressed and robbed always and there will be none to save you.
30 You will betroth a wife and another man will lie with her. You will build a house and you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard and will not use the fruit of it. 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes and you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies and you will have none to save you. 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. And your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all the day and there will be nothing in the power of your hand. 33 The fruit of your ground and all your labors, will a nation eat up which you do not know. And you will only be oppressed and crushed always, 34 so that you will be mad because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
35 Jehovah will kill* you in the knees and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 Jehovah will bring you and your king whom you will set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. And there you will serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And you will become an astonishment, a proverb and a parable, among all the peoples where Jehovah will lead you away.
38 You will carry much seed out into the field and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it. 39 You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olive will drop off. 41 You will beget sons and daughters, but they will not be your, for they will go into captivity. 42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground will the locust possess.
43 The traveler who is in the midst of you will mount up above you higher and higher and you will come down lower and lower. 44 He will lend to you and you will not lend to him. He will be the head and you will be the tail.
45 And all these curses will come upon you and will pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you listened not to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you, 46 and they will be upon you for a sign and for a wonder and upon your seed everlasting. 47 Because you served not Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you will serve your enemies that Jehovah will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things. And he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
49 Jehovah will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, that will not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, 51 and will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed, that also will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. 52 And they will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. And they will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you.
53 And you will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you. 54 The man who is tender among you* and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining, 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you*, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter, 57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet and toward her sons whom she will bear, for she will eat them secretly for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD, 59 then Jehovah will make your calamities extraordinary and the calamities of your seed, even great calamities and of long continuance and severe sicknesses and of long continuance.
60 And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of and they will cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them Jehovah will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 And you* will be left few in number, in that you* were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.
63 And it will happen, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you* to do you* good and to multiply you*, so Jehovah will rejoice over you* to cause you* to perish and to destroy you*. And you* will be plucked from the land where you go in to possess it.
64 And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And you will serve other gods there, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone ones.
65 And among these nations you will find no ease and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot, but Jehovah will give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and pining of soul. 66 And your life will hang in doubt before you and you will fear night and day and will have no assurance of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, Would it were evening! and at evening you will say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you will fear and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 And Jehovah will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will see it no more again. And there you* will sell yourselves to your* enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen and no man will buy you*.
Proverbs 16:16
16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
Deuteronomy 30:15
15 See, I have set before you this day life and good and death and evil,
1 Kings 18:21
21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long do you* go limping between the two sides? If Jehovah be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
Romans 8:7
7 because the mindset of the flesh is hostility toward God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able to be;