Deuteronomy 30:6
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The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
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One would have thought that the threatenings in the close of the foregoing chapter had made a full end of the people of Israel, and had left their case for ever desperate; but in this chapter we have a plain intimation of the mercy God had in store for them in the latter days, so that mercy at length rejoices against judgment, and has the last word. Here we have, I. Exceedingly great and precious promises made to them, upon their repentance and return to God (Deu 30:1-10). II. The righteousness of faith set before them in the plainness and easiness of the commandment that was now given them (Deu 30:11-14). III. A fair reference of the whole matter to their choice (Deu 30:15, etc.).
Open source ↗30:6 change your heart: This work of God, initiated by his grace, would result in Israel’s regeneration and identify the nation as the Lord’s true people (see 10:16; Jer 4:4; Rom 4:1-12).
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Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
But the one who loves God is known by God.
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.