Deuteronomy 11:18

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Deuteronomy 11:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

17 or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

19 Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

20 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 6:6

These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

Deuteronomy 6:7

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 6:8

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 6:9

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

Exodus 13:9

It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 13:16

So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

Psalms 119:11

I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

Proverbs 3:1

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

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 6:21

Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

Proverbs 6:22

When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

Proverbs 6:23

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

Proverbs 7:3

Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Hebrews 2:1

We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

2 Peter 1:12

Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.

2 Peter 3:1

Beloved, this is now my second letter to you. Both of them are reminders to stir you to wholesome thinking

2 Peter 3:2

by recalling what was foretold by the holy prophets and commanded by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

Matthew 23:5

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.