Deuteronomy 11:13
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 11:8 also commands obedience for strength to take the land – a complementary call within the same context.
Deuteronomy 11:22 repeats nearly the same condition of loving and obeying God, reinforcing the central theme.
Deuteronomy 4:29 uses the same 'all your heart and soul' language for seeking God — a parallel call to wholehearted devotion.
Deuteronomy 6:5 is the foundational love command that this verse reiterates — loving God with whole heart and soul.
Deuteronomy 10:12 gives the same requirement to love and serve God with all heart and soul — a key Deuteronomic theme.
Deuteronomy 15:5 uses the same phrase 'carefully hearken' — a condition for blessing that mirrors this verse's promise.
Deuteronomy 28:1 repeats the same condition of diligent obedience for blessing — the foundational covenant promise.
Deuteronomy 6:6 commands that these words be in your heart — the internal devotion needed to love and serve God as here.
Deuteronomy 6:17 commands keeping God's decrees generally – a broader parallel to the specific obedience called for here.
Joshua 22:5 echoes this command — loving and serving God with whole heart and soul — as a charge to the eastern tribes.
1 Kings 2:4 applies this same wholehearted devotion condition to the Davidic line — a later reflection of the covenant.
In 2 Kings 23:3, Josiah's covenant to obey with all heart and soul mirrors the Deuteronomic condition — demonstrating a later commitment to the same command.
Jeremiah 5:24 echoes the promise of early and latter rain, revealing that Israel's failure to fear God as the giver of rain mirrors the condition in Deuteronomy.
Zechariah 10:1 directly calls to ask for the latter rain, linking to the promise in Deuteronomy — showing prayer as the response to God's conditional pledge.
John 14:21 connects keeping commandments with love for Christ — a New Testament parallel to the heart-and-soul obedience required in Deuteronomy.
In Jeremiah 17:24, the conditional 'if you heed Me... then' parallels the structure of Deuteronomy 11:13, applying it to Sabbath observance.