LIFE AND DEATH
Deuteronomy 30:14-20
14But the word is very
nigh unto
thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
15See, I have
set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16In that I
command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways,
and to
keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou
mayest live
and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither
thou
goest to possess it.
17But if thine
heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away,
and
worship other gods, and serve them;
18I
denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye
shall not
prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go
to
possess it.
19I call heaven and
earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life
and
death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and
thy seed
may live:
20That
thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice,
and
that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of
thy
days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy
fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy 11:25-28
25There shall no
man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the
fear of
you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as
he hath
said unto you. 26Behold, I set
before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27A
blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I
command you
this day: 28And a curse, if ye will not obey
the
commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which
I
command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Jeremiah 9:13-14
13And the LORD saith, Because they
have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my
voice,
neither walked therein; 14But have
walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim,
which their
fathers taught them
Jeremiah 21:8 “And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.”