Joshua 23:11

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“Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.”

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BSBPD

“Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Joshua 23:11 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 20:6but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
  3. Deuteronomy 4:15So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
  4. Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  5. Deuteronomy 30:16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
  6. Deuteronomy 30:20and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  7. Joshua 22:5But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
  8. Proverbs 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
  9. Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
  10. Romans 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
  11. 1 Corinthians 8:3But the one who loves God is known by God.
  12. 1 Corinthians 16:22If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!
  13. Ephesians 5:15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
  14. Hebrews 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
  15. Jude 1:20But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

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