Deuteronomy 5:29
Good News Translation
If only they would always feel this way! If only they would always honor me and obey all my commands, so that everything would go well with them and their descendants forever.

New Revised Standard Version
If only they had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!

Contemporary English Version
I wish they would always worship me with fear and trembling and be this willing to obey me! Then they and their children would always enjoy a successful life.

New American Bible
Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?

O that there

Deuteronomy 32:29,30 O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end. . . .

Psalm 81:13-15 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways: . . .

Isaiah 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Jeremiah 44:4 And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.

Ezekiel 33:31,32 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. . . .

Matthew 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

Luke 19:42 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

2 Corinthians 5:20 For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1 And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

keep all

Deuteronomy 11:1 Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.

Psalm 106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

Psalm 119:1-5 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. . . .

Luke 11:28 But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

that it might

Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 4:40 Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 6:3,18 Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey. . . .

Deuteronomy 12:25,28 That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord. . . .

Deuteronomy 19:13 Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.

Deuteronomy 22:7 But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.

Ruth 3:1 After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.

Psalm 19:11 For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward.

Isaiah 3:10 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 22:14,15 Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion. . . .

Ephesians 6:3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.

James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Context
Moses Intercedes for the People
28And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have spoken all things well. 29Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?30Go and say to them: Return into your tents.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:40
Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 5:16
Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 5:30
Go and say to them: Return into your tents.

Deuteronomy 5:33
But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be long in the land of your possession.

Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.

Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

Psalm 78:7
That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

Psalm 81:13
If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

Isaiah 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Jeremiah 42:6
Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee: that it may be well with us when we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.

Deuteronomy 5:28
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