^11 (A)Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.

^5 (A)Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, ^(B)to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

⁵ You ^(A)shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶ And ^(B)these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. ^7 (C)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ^8 (D)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ^9 (E)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

¹⁰ “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities ^(F)that you did not build, ¹¹ and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, ^12 (G)then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

²⁰ But you, beloved, ^(A)building yourselves up in your most holy faith and ^(B)praying in the Holy Spirit, ^21 (C)keep yourselves in the love of God, ^(D)waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

¹⁵ See to it that no one ^(A)fails to obtain the grace of God; that no ^(B)“root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

²² If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be ^(A)accursed. Our Lord, come!^[a]

³ But if anyone loves God, ^(A)he is known by God.^[a]

²⁸ And we know that for those who love God all things work together ^(A)for good,^[a] for ^(B)those who are called according to his purpose.