Deuteronomy 4:29

4:29 But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul. ¹ 

Deuteronomy 6:5-6

6:5 You must love ²  the Lord your God with your whole mind, ³  your whole being, ⁴  and all your strength. ⁵ 

Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles

6:6 These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

Deuteronomy 7:17

7:17 If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

Deuteronomy 8:5

8:5 Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, ⁶  the Lord your God disciplines you.

Deuteronomy 8:14

8:14 be sure ⁷  you do not feel self-important and forget the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,

Deuteronomy 8:17

8:17 Be careful ⁸  not to say, “My own ability and skill ⁹  have gotten me this wealth.”

Deuteronomy 11:16

Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience

11:16 Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods! ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 18:21

18:21 Now if you say to yourselves, ¹¹  ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ¹²  –

Deuteronomy 28:47

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Deuteronomy 30:17

30:17 However, if you ¹³  turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

¹ tn Or “mind and being.” See Deut 6:5.

² tn The verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) in this setting communicates not so much an emotional idea as one of covenant commitment. To love the Lord is to be absolutely loyal and obedient to him in every respect, a truth Jesus himself taught (cf. John 14:15). See also the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.

³ tn Heb “heart.” In OT physiology the heart (לֵב, לֵבָב; levav, lev) was considered the seat of the mind or intellect, so that one could think with one’s heart. See A. Luc, NIDOTTE 2:749-54.

⁴ tn Heb “soul”; “being.” Contrary to Hellenistic ideas of a soul that is discrete and separate from the body and spirit, OT anthropology equated the “soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) with the person himself. It is therefore best in most cases to translate נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) as “being” or the like. See H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 10-25; D. Fredericks, NIDOTTE 3:133-34.

⁵ sn For NT variations on the Shema see Matt 22:37-39; Mark 12:29-30; Luke 10:27.

³ tn Heb “just as a man disciplines his son.” The Hebrew text reflects the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

⁴ tn The words “be sure” are not in the Hebrew text; vv. 12-14 are part of the previous sentence. For stylistic reasons a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 12 in the translation and the words “be sure” repeated from v. 11 to indicate the connection.

⁵ tn For stylistic reasons a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 17 in the translation and the words “be careful” supplied to indicate the connection.

⁶ tn Heb “my strength and the might of my hand.”

⁶ tn Heb “Watch yourselves lest your heart turns and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

⁷ tn Heb “in your heart.”

⁸ tn Heb “know the word which the Lord has not spoken.” The issue here is not understanding the meaning of the message, but distinguishing a genuine prophetic word from a false one.

⁸ tn Heb “your heart,” as a metonymy for the person.