The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

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.

You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.

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

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

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

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

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

Then if you and your descendants turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,

It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,

If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.

Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.

You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

“When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him with your whole mind and being.