Deuteronomy 30:15
Good News Translation
"Today I am giving you a choice between good and evil, between life and death.

New Revised Standard Version
See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity.

Contemporary English Version
Today I am giving you a choice. You can choose life and success or death and disaster.

New American Bible
See, I have today set before you life and good, death and evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil:

Deuteronomy 30:1,19 Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee, . . .

Deuteronomy 11:26 Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse:

Deuteronomy 28:1 Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:47 For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.

Matthew 16:16 Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

Galatians 3:13,14 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree). . . .

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment: That we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given commandment unto us.

1 John 5:11,12 And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son. . . .

Context
The Choice of Life or Death
14But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it. 15Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil:16That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.…
Cross References
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

Deuteronomy 11:26
Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse:

Deuteronomy 30:1
Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee,

Deuteronomy 30:14
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it.

Proverbs 12:28
In the path of justice is life: but the bye-way leadeth to death.

Isaiah 1:19
If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

Jeremiah 21:8
And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Micah 6:8
I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Deuteronomy 30:14
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