THEOSISDeuteronomy 4:29Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם מִשָּׁ֛ם אֶת־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ וּמָצָ֑אתָ כִּ֣י תִדְרְשֶׁ֔נּוּ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ֖ וּבְכָל־נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 119 (118):2
- Jer 29:12And you shall call upon me, and you shall go. and you shall pray to me, and I will hear you.
- Jer 29:14And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive.
- 2 Chr 15:4And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.
- Isa 55:6Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.
- Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.
- Ps 119 (118):10
- Deut 30:10Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.