Deuteronomy 5:29

“O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!”

"O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!" - Deuteronomy 5:29
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What does Deuteronomy 5:29 mean?

Deuteronomy 5:29 from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible reads: "O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!" This verse is part of a larger…

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A Heart That Fears: Cultivating Godly Reverence

In Deuteronomy 5:29, we encounter a poignant desire expressed by God through Moses: "O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!" This verse reverberates…

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A Prayer for a Heart of Obedience and Reverence

O Lord, our mighty God and everlasting Father, As I come before You today, my heart is filled with a profound desire to align my spirit with Your divine will. In the words of Deuteronomy 5:29, You speak to us with such longing: "O that there were such a heart in them, that they…

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Deuteronomy 5:29 - "O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!"
Deuteronomy 29:5 - "And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot."
Deuteronomy 1:29 - "Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them."
Deuteronomy 3:29 - "So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor."
Deuteronomy 29:14 - "Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;"
Deuteronomy 32:29 - "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!"
Deuteronomy 29:29 - "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."
Deuteronomy 29:27 - "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:"
Deuteronomy 29:3 - "The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:"
Deuteronomy 29:8 - "And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh."
Deuteronomy 29:9 - "Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do."
Genesis 29-5
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Deuteronomy 29:4 - "Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day."
Deuteronomy 29:17 - "And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)"
Deuteronomy 29:28 - "And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day."
Deuteronomy 29:15 - "But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:"
"And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot." - Deuteronomy 29:5
Deuteronomy 5:17 - "Thou shalt not kill."
Deuteronomy 29:26 - "For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:"
Deuteronomy 34:5-6
Deuteronomy 29:16 - "(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;"
Deuteronomy 9:29 - "Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm."
Deuteronomy 5:19 - "Neither shalt thou steal."
Deuteronomy 29:12 - "That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:"
Deuteronomy 29:11 - "Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:"
Deuteronomy 29:24 - "Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?"
Deuteronomy 29:21 - "And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:"
Deuteronomy 5:18 - "Neither shalt thou commit adultery."