Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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The Lord Is God

³²Ask^(A) now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth;^(B) ask from one end of the heavens to the other.^(C) Has anything so great^(D) as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? ³³Has any other people heard the voice of God^[a] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?^(E) ³⁴Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation,^(F) by testings,^(G) by signs^(H) and wonders,^(I) by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,^(J) or by great and awesome deeds,^(K) like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

³⁵You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.^(L) ³⁶From heaven he made you hear his voice^(M) to discipline^(N) you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. ³⁷Because he loved^(O) your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,^(P) ³⁸to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance,^(Q) as it is today.

³⁹Acknowledge^(R) and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.^(S) ⁴⁰Keep^(T) his decrees and commands,^(U) which I am giving you today, so that it may go well^(V) with you and your children after you and that you may live long^(W) in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 4:33 Or of a god

Psalm 105:1-6

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Psalm 105^(A)

¹Give praise to the Lord,^(B) proclaim his name;^(C)
    make known among the nations what he has done.
²Sing to him,^(D) sing praise to him;^(E)
    tell of all his wonderful acts.^(F)
³Glory in his holy name;^(G)
    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
⁴Look to the Lord and his strength;
    seek his face^(H) always.

⁵Remember the wonders^(I) he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,^(J)
⁶you his servants, the descendants of Abraham,^(K)
his chosen^(L) ones, the children of Jacob.

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Matthew 16:24-28

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²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.^(A) ²⁵For whoever wants to save their life^[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.^(B) ²⁶What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? ²⁷For the Son of Man^(C) is going to come^(D) in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.^(E)