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Good News Translation
Joshua 23:11
Be careful, then, to love 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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take good heede therfore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Take good heede therfore vnto your selues, that ye loue 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 Be careful, then, to love the Lord your God. 12 If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them, 13 you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. And this will last until none of you are left in this good land which the Lord your God has given you. 14 "Now my time has come to die. Every one of you knows in his heart and soul that the Lord your God has given you all the good things that he promised. Every promise he made has been kept; not one has failed. 15 But just as he kept every promise that he made to you, so he will carry out every threat. 16 If you do not keep the covenant which the Lord your God commanded you to keep and if you serve and worship other gods, then in his anger he will punish you, and soon none of you will be left in this good land that he has given 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
"Listen to us, sir. We look upon you as a mighty leader; bury your wife in the best grave that we have. Any of us would be glad to give you a grave, so that you can bury her."
"Listen to us, sir. We look upon you as a mighty leader; bury your wife in the best grave that we have. Any of us would be glad to give you a grave, so that you can bury her."
Genesis 23:7
Then Abraham bowed before them
Then Abraham bowed before them
Genesis 23:12
But Abraham bowed before the Hittites
But Abraham bowed before the Hittites
Genesis 23:18
It was recognized as Abraham's property by all the Hittites who were there at the meeting.
It was recognized as Abraham's property by all the Hittites who were there at the meeting.
Genesis 23:20
So the field which had belonged to the Hittites, and the cave in it, became the property of Abraham for a burial ground.
So the field which had belonged to the Hittites, and the cave in it, became the property of Abraham for a burial ground.
Numbers 35:30
"Those accused of murder may be found guilty and put to death only on the evidence of two or more witnesses; the evidence of one witness is not sufficient to support an accusation of murder.
"Those accused of murder may be found guilty and put to death only on the evidence of two or more witnesses; the evidence of one witness is not sufficient to support an accusation of murder.
Deuteronomy 17:6
However, they may be put to death only if two or more witnesses testify against them; they are not to be put to death if there is only one witness.
However, they may be put to death only if two or more witnesses testify against them; they are not to be put to death if there is only one witness.
Deuteronomy 19:15
"One witness is not enough to convict someone of a crime; at least two witnesses are necessary to prove that someone is guilty.
"One witness is not enough to convict someone of a crime; at least two witnesses are necessary to prove that someone is guilty.
Ruth 4:1
Boaz went to the meeting place at the town gate and sat down there. Then Elimelech's nearest relative, the man whom Boaz had mentioned, came by, and Boaz called to him, "Come over here, my friend, and sit down." So he went over and sat down.
Boaz went to the meeting place at the town gate and sat down there. Then Elimelech's nearest relative, the man whom Boaz had mentioned, came by, and Boaz called to him, "Come over here, my friend, and sit down." So he went over and sat down.
Ruth 4:4
and I think you ought to know about it. Now then, if you want it, buy it in the presence of these men sitting here. But if you don't want it, say so, because the right to buy it belongs first to you and then to me." The man said, "I will buy it."
and I think you ought to know about it. Now then, if you want it, buy it in the presence of these men sitting here. But if you don't want it, say so, because the right to buy it belongs first to you and then to me." The man said, "I will buy 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.
