Deuteronomy 32:40
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,”
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BSBPD
“For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live--to the age!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 32:40 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 14:22But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
- Exodus 6:8And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”
- Numbers 14:21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
- Numbers 14:28So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
- 2 Samuel 22:47The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—
- Jeremiah 4:2and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
- Daniel 12:7And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
- Hebrews 6:17So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
- Revelation 10:5Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven.
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