Deuteronomy 30:17 “But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away…”

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

World English Bible

But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

American Standard Version

But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Geneva Bible 1599

But if thine heart turne away, so that thou wilt not obey, but shalt be seduced and worship other gods, and serue them,

Darby Translation

But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and thou shalt bow down to other gods and serve them;

Young's Literal Translation

'And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them,

Bible in Basic English

But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

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Cross references

“if thine”

Deuteronomy 29:18–28 1 Samuel 12:25 John 3:19–21

Deuteronomy 29:18–28 · BSB

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous a…

1 Samuel 12:25 · BSB

But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

John 3:19–21 · BSB

And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

“heart”

Proverbs 1:32 2 Timothy 4:4 Hebrews 3:12 Deuteronomy 17:17 1 Kings 11:2 Proverbs 14:14

Proverbs 1:32 · BSB

For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

2 Timothy 4:4 · BSB

So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Hebrews 3:12 · BSB

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

Deuteronomy 17:17 · BSB

He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.

1 Kings 11:2 · BSB

These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

Proverbs 14:14 · BSB

The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

18I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Read Deuteronomy 30