Choose Life

¹⁵ “See, ^(A)I have placed before you today life and ^[a]happiness, and death and ^[b]adversity, ¹⁶ in that I am commanding you today ^(B)to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you ^(C)may live and become numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it. ¹⁷ But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸ I declare to you today that ^(D)you will certainly perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ^[c]and take possession of it. ^19 (E)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^(F)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ^[d]descendants, ^20 (G)by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and ^(H)by holding close to Him; ^(I)for ^[e]this is your life and the length of your days, ^[f]so that you may live in ^(J)the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

⁴⁶ he said to them, “^(A)Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you will command ^(B)your sons to ^[a]follow carefully, all the words of this Law. ⁴⁷ For it is not a ^[b]trivial matter for you; indeed ^(C)it is your life. And ^(D)by this word you will prolong your days in the land, ^[c]which you are about to cross the Jordan to ^[d]possess.”

⁴⁸ Now ^(E)the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, ⁴⁹ “^(F)Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab ^[e]opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel as a possession. ⁵⁰ Then you are to die on the mountain where you ascend, and be ^(G)gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, ^51 (H)because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the ^(I)wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel. ^52 (J)For you will see the land at a distance but ^(K)you will not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel.”

⁸ “You shall also say to this people, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Behold, I am ^(A)setting before you the way of life and the way of death.