Parallel Verses New International Version See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse-- King James Bible Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; Darby Bible Translation See, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: World English Bible Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: Young's Literal Translation 'See, I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling: Deuteronomy 11:26 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleBehold, I set before you - a blessing and a curse - If God had not put it in the power of this people either to obey or disobey; if they had not had a free will, over which they had complete authority, to use it either in the way of willing or nilling; could God, with any propriety, have given such precepts as these, sanctioned with such promises and threatenings? If they were not free agents, they could not be punished for disobedience, nor could they, in any sense of the word, have been rewardable for obedience. A Stone is not rewardable because, in obedience to the laws of gravitation, it always tends to the center; nor is it punishable be cause, in being removed from that center, in its tending or falling towards it again it takes away the life of a man. That God has given man a free, self-determining Will, which cannot be forced by any power but that which is omnipotent, and which God himself never will force, is declared in the most formal manner through the whole of the sacred writings. No argument can affect this, while the Bible is considered as a Divine revelation; no sophistry can explain away its evidence, as long as the accountableness of man for his conduct is admitted, and as long as the eternal bounds of moral good and evil remain, and the essential distinctions between vice and virtue exist. If ye will obey, (for God is ever ready to assist), ye shall live; if ye will disobey and refuse that help, ye shall die. So hath Jehovah spoken, and man cannot reverse it. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Library Canaan on EarthMany of you, my dear hearers, are really come out of Egypt; but you are still wandering about in the wilderness. "We that have believed do enter into rest;" but you, though you have eaten of Jesus, have not so believed on him as to have entered into the Canaan of rest. You are the Lord's people, but you have not come into the Canaan of assured faith, confidence, and hope, where we wrestle no longer with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus--when … Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856 Josiah, a Pattern for the Ignorant. The Old Testament Canon from Its Beginning to Its Close. Deuteronomy Cross References Deuteronomy 30:1 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. Deuteronomy 30:19 This day I call the heavens and the 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 Jeremiah 42:21 I have told you today, but you still have not obeyed the LORD your God in all he sent me to tell you. Jump to Previous Blessing Curse Reviling Setting Today To-DayJump to Next Blessing Curse Reviling Setting Today To-DayLinks Deuteronomy 11:26 NIVDeuteronomy 11:26 NLT Deuteronomy 11:26 ESV Deuteronomy 11:26 NASB Deuteronomy 11:26 KJV Deuteronomy 11:26 Bible Apps Deuteronomy 11:26 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 11:26 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 11:26 French Bible Deuteronomy 11:26 German Bible Deuteronomy 11:26 Commentaries THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®. Bible Hub |