Saturday, March 12, 2011

LOVE Deuteronomy 30:15-16

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

I set before you today life
Proverbs 11:19 The truly righteous man attains life, but he who pursues evil goes to his death.
Proverbs 12:28 In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.
Jeremiah 21:8 "Furthermore, tell the people, 'This is what the LORD says: See I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.' "

and prosperity
Deuteronomy 28:11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.
Job 36:11 "If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment."
Psalm 25:13 He will spend his days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.

death
Genesis 2:17 ". . . but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

and destruction
Deuteronomy 11:26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse-- . . .

For I command you today to love the LORD your God
Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

then you will live
Deuteronomy 30:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live . . .
Deuteronomy 32:47 They are not just idle words for you--they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
Nehemiah 9:29 "You warned them to return to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, by which a man will live if he obeys them. Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen."

NOTES:
Proverbs 10:16; Psalm 106:5; Proverbs 3:1-2; Deuteronomy 4:1

Read 2 Corinthians 10

Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV®, Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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