²⁶ I ^(A)call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will ^(B)certainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not ^[a]live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.

^19 (A)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^(B)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ^[a]descendants, ^20 (C)by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and ^(D)by holding close to Him; ^(E)for ^[b]this is your life and the length of your days, ^[c]so that you may live in ^(F)the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

²⁸ Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and ^(A)call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against them.

God, the Judge of the Righteous and the Wicked.

A Psalm of ^[a]Asaph.

¹⁷ “Do not presume that I came to abolish the ^(A)Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. ¹⁸ For truly I say to you, ^(B)until heaven and earth pass away, not ^[a]the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished! ¹⁹ Therefore, whoever nullifies one of the least of these commandments, and teaches ^[b]others to do the same, shall be called least ^(C)in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever ^[c]keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.