Deuteronomy 30:14 BSB

Deuteronomy 30:14

But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

BSB

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ASV

But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

KJV

But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1.269 (253)

But consider if perhaps all people participate in him insofar as he is Word. This is why the apostle teaches us that he is sought within the seekers by those who choose to find him. He says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven?' that is, to bring Christ down; or, 'Who shall descend into the deep?' that is, to bring Christ up again from the dead. But what does the Scripture say? The Word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart."

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But the word is very nigh unto thee - The doctrine of salvation preached by the apostles; in thy mouth, the promises of redemption made by the prophets forming a part of every Jew’s creed; in thy heart - the power to believe with the heart unto righteousness, that the tongue may make confession unto salvation. In this way, it is evident, St. Paul understood these passages; see Rom 10:6-8, etc.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1967: “Plain Gospel For Plain People” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1887)

OUR Lord Jesus Christ, in John's Gospel, in the 46th verse of the fifth chapter, says, "Moses wrote of Me." Hence we may safely interpret much that Moses said, not only of the Law, but also of the Gospel. Indeed, the Law itself was given primarily to drive men to the Gospel. It was meant to show them the impossibility of salvation by their own works and so to shut them up to a salvation which is available even for sinners.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
קָר֥וֹב	ka.Rov	[is] near	H7138 →
אֵלֶ֛יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
הַדָּבָ֖ר	ha.da.Var	the word	H1697 →
מְאֹ֑ד	me.'Od	very	H3966 →
בְּפִ֥יךָ	be.Fi.kha	in mouth your	H6310 →
וּבִֽלְבָבְךָ֖	u.vil.va.ve.Kha	and in heart your	H3824 →
לַעֲשֹׂתֽוֹ׃ ס	la.'a.so.To	to do it	H6213 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
leads to
- Titus 1:16
  They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 2:13
  For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- Luke 6:46
  Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
- James 1:22
  Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
- Luke 11:28
  But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Through
John 5:46
If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 18:15
  The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
- Deuteronomy 18:18–19
  I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
- John 1:45
  Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Deuteronomy

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Deuteronomy