Deuteronomy 30:17

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“But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,”

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BSBPD

“But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 30:17 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 11:16But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
  2. Deuteronomy 17:17He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
  3. Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
  4. Joshua 22:15They went to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said to them,
  5. 1 Samuel 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
  6. 1 Samuel 12:25But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
  7. 1 Kings 11:2These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
  8. Proverbs 1:32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
  9. Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
  10. John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
  11. 2 Timothy 4:4So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
  12. Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
  13. Hebrews 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

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