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the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Bishop's Bible
Joshua 23:11
Take good heede therfore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
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Christian Standard Bible®
So diligently watch yourselves! Love the Lord your God!
So diligently watch yourselves! Love the Lord your God!
Hebrew Names Version
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
King James Version
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
Take utmost care for the sake of your life to love Yahweh your God,
Take utmost care for the sake of your life to love Yahweh your God,
English Standard Version
Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
New Century Version
So you must be careful to love the Lord your God.
So you must be careful to love the Lord your God.
New English Translation
Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God!
Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God!
Amplified Bible
"So be very careful and watchful of yourselves to love the LORD your God.
"So be very careful and watchful of yourselves to love the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible
"So take great care for yourselves that you love the LORD your God.
"So take great care for yourselves that you love the LORD your God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Take good heede therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Take good heede therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God.
So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God.
Contemporary English Version
Be sure to always love the Lord your God.
Be sure to always love the Lord your God.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Therefore take great care to love Adonai your God.
"Therefore take great care to love Adonai your God.
Darby Translation
Take great heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Take great heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
So you must continue to love the Lord your God.
So you must continue to love the Lord your God.
George Lamsa Translation
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, to revere the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, to revere the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
Be careful, then, to love the Lord your God.
Be careful, then, to love the Lord your God.
Literal Translation
And you shall be very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
And you shall be very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take diligent hede therfore vnto youre soules, that ye loue the LORDE youre God.
Take diligent hede therfore vnto youre soules, that ye loue the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.
So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
King James Version (1611)
Take good heed therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Take good heed therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God.
And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God.
English Revised Version
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be ye war bifore moost diligentli of this thing oneli, that ye loue youre Lord God.
Be ye war bifore moost diligentli of this thing oneli, that ye loue youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
Update Bible Version
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
World English Bible
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
New Living Translation
So be very careful to love the Lord your God.
So be very careful to love the Lord your God.
New Life Bible
Be very careful to love the Lord your God.
Be very careful to love the Lord your God.
New Revised Standard
Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Take diligent heed, therefore, unto your souls, - to love Yahweh your God.
Take diligent heed, therefore, unto your souls, - to love Yahweh your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God.
This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the LORD your God.
Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the LORD your God.
THE MESSAGE
"Now, vigilantly guard your souls: Love God , your God. Because if you wander off and start taking up with these remaining nations still among you (intermarry, say, and have other dealings with them), know for certain that God , your God, will not get rid of these nations for you. They'll be nothing but trouble to you—horsewhips on your backs and sand in your eyes—until you're the ones who will be driven out of this good land that God , your God, has given you.
"Now, vigilantly guard your souls: Love God , your God. Because if you wander off and start taking up with these remaining nations still among you (intermarry, say, and have other dealings with them), know for certain that God , your God, will not get rid of these nations for you. They'll be nothing but trouble to you—horsewhips on your backs and sand in your eyes—until you're the ones who will be driven out of this good land that God , your God, has given you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God.
"So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God.
Contextual Overview
11 Take good heede therfore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God. 12 Els, if ye go backe and cleaue vnto the rest of these nations that remaine with you, & shall make mariages with them, and go in vnto them, and they to you: 13 Be ye sure that the Lorde your God will no more cast out all these nations from before you: but they shalbe snares and trappes vnto you, and scourges in your sides, & thornes in your eyes, vntill ye perishe from of this good land whiche the Lorde your God hath geuen you. 14 And behold, this day do I enter into the way of all the world, and ye knowe in al your heartes and in al your soules, that nothyng hath fayled of all the good thinges whiche the Lorde your God promised you, but all are come to passe vnto you, and nothing hath fayled therof. 15 Therfore, as al good thinges are come vpon you, whiche the Lorde your God promised you: so shall the Lorde bring vpon you all euyll, vntill he haue destroyed you fro of this good land which the Lorde your God hath geuen you. 16 When ye haue transgressed the appointmet of the Lord your God which he commaunded you, and haue gone & serued straunge goddes, & bowed your selues to them: then shall the wrath of the Lorde waxe whot vpon you, and ye shall perishe quicklie from of the good lande which he hath geuen you.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Take good: Joshua 22:5, Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 6:5-12, Proverbs 4:23, Luke 21:34, Ephesians 5:15, Hebrews 12:15
yourselves: Heb. your souls
love: Exodus 20:6, Romans 8:28, 1 Corinthians 8:3, 1 Corinthians 16:22, Jude 1:20, Jude 1:21
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:13 - be circumspect Deuteronomy 4:15 - Take ye Deuteronomy 4:23 - heed 2 Kings 21:8 - only if they Jeremiah 17:21 - Take Hebrews 2:1 - the more
Cross-References
Genesis 23:6
Heare vs my Lorde, thou art a prince of God amongest vs, in the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbyd thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy dead [therin.]
Heare vs my Lorde, thou art a prince of God amongest vs, in the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbyd thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy dead [therin.]
Genesis 23:7
Abraham stoode vp and bowed hym selfe before the people of the lande, that is, the chyldren of Heth.
Abraham stoode vp and bowed hym selfe before the people of the lande, that is, the chyldren of Heth.
Genesis 23:12
And Abraham bowed him selfe before the people of the lande.
And Abraham bowed him selfe before the people of the lande.
Genesis 23:18
Unto Abraham for a possession in the sight of the chyldren of Heth, before all that went in at the gates of the citie.
Unto Abraham for a possession in the sight of the chyldren of Heth, before all that went in at the gates of the citie.
Genesis 23:20
And so both the fielde & the caue that is therein, was made vnto Abraham a sure possession to bury in, by the sonnes of Heth.
And so both the fielde & the caue that is therein, was made vnto Abraham a sure possession to bury in, by the sonnes of Heth.
Numbers 35:30
Whoso kylleth any person, the [Iudge] shall put the murtherer to death thorowe wytnesses: but one wytnesse shall not testifie agaynst any person, to cause hym to dye.
Whoso kylleth any person, the [Iudge] shall put the murtherer to death thorowe wytnesses: but one wytnesse shall not testifie agaynst any person, to cause hym to dye.
Deuteronomy 17:6
At the mouth of two or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death, dye: and at the mouth of one witnesse, let no man dye.
At the mouth of two or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death, dye: and at the mouth of one witnesse, let no man dye.
Deuteronomy 19:15
One witnesse shall not rise agaynst a man for any maner trespasse, or for any maner sinne, or for any maner fault that he offendeth in: but at the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall the matter be stablished.
One witnesse shall not rise agaynst a man for any maner trespasse, or for any maner sinne, or for any maner fault that he offendeth in: but at the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall the matter be stablished.
Ruth 4:1
Then went Booz vp to the gate, and sat him downe there: and beholde, the kinsman of which Booz spake, came by, vnto whom, he sayde: Ho, suche one, come, sit downe here. And he turned, & sat downe.
Then went Booz vp to the gate, and sat him downe there: and beholde, the kinsman of which Booz spake, came by, vnto whom, he sayde: Ho, suche one, come, sit downe here. And he turned, & sat downe.
Ruth 4:4
And I thought to do thee to wyt, and byd the bye it before thee inhabitauntes and elders of my people. If thou wilt redeeme it, redeeme it: but & if thou wilt not redeeme it, then tell me, that I may knowe: For there is none to redeeme it, saue thou, and I next thee. And the other aunswered: I will redeeme it.
And I thought to do thee to wyt, and byd the bye it before thee inhabitauntes and elders of my people. If thou wilt redeeme it, redeeme it: but & if thou wilt not redeeme it, then tell me, that I may knowe: For there is none to redeeme it, saue thou, and I next thee. And the other aunswered: I will redeeme it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves,.... To be upon their guard, and to be watchful, were very necessary to them, that they might not be ensnared by the Canaanites, and drawn aside by them into idolatry, and so apostatize from the Lord and his worship, since their temptations would be many:
that ye love the Lord your God; which would the most strongly influence and engage them to serve and worship the Lord, and obey his commands, and be the best preservative against idolatry and false worship.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 23:11. Take good heed - unto yourselves that ye love the Lord — לנפשתיכם lenaphshotheychem, Take heed TO YOUR SOULS, literally; but נפש nephesh and [Arabic] nefs, both in Hebrew and Arabic, signify the whole self, as well as soul and life; both soul and body must be joined in this work, for it is written, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength.
