Deuteronomy 4:9

Call To Obedience

⁸ Or what great nation has statutes and judgments so righteous (upright, just) as this whole law which I am placing before you today? ⁹ “Only pay attention and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your grandchildren [impressing these things on their mind and penetrating their heart with these truths]— ¹⁰ especially the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb (Mount Sinai), when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] all the days they live on the land, and so that they may teach their children.’

As Long as You Live

Be on Your Guard

Do Not Forget

Keep Watch

Take Heed

Teach Them to Your Children

Turn Aside

As You Live

Forget Not

Give Heed

Make Sure

Deuteronomy 6:7

You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

Genesis 18:19

For I have known (chosen, acknowledged) him [as My own], so that he may teach and command his children and [the sons of] his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is righteous and just, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has promised him.”

Deuteronomy 4:23

So be on your guard and watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He has made with you, and make for yourselves a carved or sculpted image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.

Deuteronomy 11:19

You shall teach them [diligently] to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths], speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to the point of resentment with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by showing favoritism or indifference to any of them], but bring them up [tenderly, with lovingkindness] in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 29:29

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed and disclosed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may do all of the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, “Take to heart all the words of warning which I am speaking to you today; and you shall command your children to observe them carefully—to do all the words of this law.

Proverbs 4:20-23

My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn;
Open your ears to my sayings.

Exodus 13:8-9

You shall explain this to your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

Exodus 13:14-16

And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘With a strong and powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage and slavery.

Deuteronomy 4:15

“So pay attention and watch yourselves carefully—for you did not see any form [of God] on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire—

Deuteronomy 31:19

“Now then, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouth, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

Joshua 1:18

Any man who rebels against your command and does not obey everything that you command him, shall be put to death; only be strong and courageous.”

Joshua 4:6-7

so that this may be a sign among you; when your children ask later, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

Joshua 4:21

He said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’

Psalm 34:11-16

Come, you children, listen to me;
I will teach you to fear the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence and worship Him with obedience].

Psalm 71:18

And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,
Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

Psalm 78:3-8

Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.

Psalm 119:11

Your word I have treasured and stored in my heart,
That I may not sin against You.

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not reject the teaching of your mother.

Proverbs 3:1-3

My son, do not forget my teaching,
But let your heart keep my commandments;

Proverbs 3:21

My son, let them not escape from your sight,
But keep sound wisdom and discretion,

Proverbs 4:1-13

Hear, O children, the instruction of a father,
And pay attention [and be willing to learn] so that you may gain understanding and intelligent discernment.

Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you [so they are readily available to guide you].

Proverbs 23:26

My son, give me your heart
And let your eyes delight in my ways,

Isaiah 38:19

“It is the living who give praise and thanks to You, as I do today;
A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

Luke 8:18

So be careful how you listen; for whoever has [a teachable heart], to him more [understanding] will be given; and whoever does not have [a longing for truth], even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

Hebrews 2:1

For this reason [that is, because of God’s final revelation in His Son Jesus and because of Jesus’ superiority to the angels] we must pay much closer attention than ever to the things that we have heard, so that we do not [in any way] drift away from truth.

Hebrews 2:3

how will we escape [the penalty] if we ignore such a great salvation [the gospel, the new covenant]? For it was spoken at first by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us and proved authentic by those who personally heard [Him speak],

James 2:22

You see that [his] faith was working together with his works, and as a result of the works, his faith was completed [reaching its maturity when he expressed his faith through obedience].

Revelation 3:3

So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard. Keep and obey them, and repent [change your sinful way of thinking, and demonstrate your repentance with new behavior that proves a conscious decision to turn away from sin]. So then, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.