Deuteronomy 30:15-20

New American Standard Bible

Choose Life

¹⁵“See, ^(A)I have placed before you today life and ^[a]happiness, and death and ^[b]adversity, ¹⁶in that I am commanding you today ^(B)to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you ^(C)may live and become numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it. ¹⁷But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸I declare to you today that ^(D)you will certainly perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ^[c]and take possession of it. ¹⁹^(E)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^(F)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ^[d]descendants, ²⁰^(G)by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and ^(H)by holding close to Him; ^(I)for ^[e]this is your life and the length of your days, ^[f]so that you may live in ^(J)the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

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Deuteronomy 30:15 Lit good
Deuteronomy 30:15 Lit evil
Deuteronomy 30:18 Lit to
Deuteronomy 30:19 Lit seed
Deuteronomy 30:20 Lit that
Deuteronomy 30:20 Lit to dwell

Luke 14:25-33

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Discipleship Tested

²⁵Now ^[a]large crowds were going along with Him, and He turned and said to them, ²⁶“^(A)If anyone comes to Me and does not ^[b]hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. ²⁷Whoever does not ^(B)carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. ²⁸For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? ²⁹Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who are watching it will begin to ridicule him, ³⁰saying, ‘This person began to build, and was not able to finish!’ ³¹Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and ^(C)consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to face the one coming against him with twenty thousand? ³²Otherwise, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and requests terms of peace. ³³So then, none of you can be My disciple who ^(D)does not ^[c]give up all his own possessions.