Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. New Living Translation “But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the LORD and serve and worship other gods. English Standard Version Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; Berean Standard Bible But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods, King James Bible Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; New King James Version Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them, New American Standard Bible Beware that your hearts are not easily deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods, and worship them. NASB 1995 “Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them. NASB 1977 “Beware, lest your hearts be deceived and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them. Legacy Standard Bible Beware lest your hearts be deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them, Amplified Bible Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away [from the LORD] and serve other gods and worship them, Christian Standard Bible Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods. Holman Christian Standard Bible Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, worship, and bow down to other gods. American Standard Version Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; Contemporary English Version But watch out! You will be tempted to turn your backs on the LORD. And if you worship other gods, English Revised Version Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; GOD'S WORD® Translation Be careful, or you'll be tempted to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. Good News Translation Do not let yourselves be led away from the LORD to worship and serve other gods. International Standard Version Be careful! Otherwise, your hearts will deceive you and you will turn away to serve other gods and worship them. Majority Standard Bible But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods, NET Bible Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods! New Heart English Bible Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; Webster's Bible Translation Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; World English Bible Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them; Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionTake heed to yourselves lest your heart be enticed, and you have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, Young's Literal Translation 'Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, Smith's Literal Translation Watch ye to yourselves, lest your heart shall be enticed, and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and worship to them: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleBeware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them: Catholic Public Domain Version Be careful, lest perhaps your heart may be deceived, and you might withdraw from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them. New American Bible But be careful lest your heart be so lured away that you serve other gods and bow down to them. New Revised Standard Version Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleTake heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Beware lest your heart will be enticed and you will turn away and you will serve other gods and you will worship them; OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; Brenton Septuagint Translation take heed to thyself that thy heart be not puffed up, and ye transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Great Blessings…15And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied. 16But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods, 17or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.… Cross References Exodus 20:3-5 You shall have no other gods before Me. / You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, Joshua 23:12-13 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. 1 Kings 11:4 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. Jeremiah 25:6 Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ 2 Chronicles 7:19-20 But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods, / then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. Hosea 4:12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. 1 Samuel 12:21 Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty. Jeremiah 13:10 These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all. 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. Psalm 106:36-39 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. / They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. / They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. ... Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Romans 1:21-23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 1 Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. Galatians 4:8-9 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. / But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Treasury of Scripture Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; Take heed Deuteronomy 4:9,23 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; … Luke 21:8,34,36 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them… Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. your heart Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; Job 31:27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: and serve Deuteronomy 8:19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. Deuteronomy 30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; Jump to Previous Beware Bow Bowed Care Careful Deceived Enticed Heart Hearts Heed Servants Serve Served Turn Turned Ways Worship Worshippers YourselvesJump to Next Beware Bow Bowed Care Careful Deceived Enticed Heart Hearts Heed Servants Serve Served Turn Turned Ways Worship Worshippers YourselvesDeuteronomy 11 1. Another exhortation to obedience2. by their own experience of God's great works 8. by promise of God's great blessings 16. and by threatenings 18. A careful study is required in God's words 26. The blessing and curse set before them But be careful The Hebrew root for "be careful" is "שָׁמַר" (shamar), which means to guard, keep, or watch over. This word conveys a sense of vigilance and attentiveness. In the context of Deuteronomy, it is a call to the Israelites to be constantly aware of their spiritual state and the influences around them. Historically, the Israelites were surrounded by nations with different religious practices, and this warning underscores the importance of maintaining a steadfast commitment to God amidst external pressures. The phrase serves as a timeless reminder for believers to guard their hearts and minds against anything that might lead them away from their faith. or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew But be carefulהִשָּֽׁמְר֣וּ (hiš·šā·mə·rū) Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to that you are not פֶּ֥ן (pen) Conjunction Strong's 6435: Removal, lest enticed יִפְתֶּ֖ה (yip̄·teh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6601: To open, be, roomy, to be, simple, delude to turn aside וְסַרְתֶּ֗ם (wə·sar·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 5493: To turn aside to worship וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙ (wa·‘ă·ḇaḏ·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave and bow down וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֖ם (wə·hiš·ta·ḥă·wî·ṯem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 7812: To depress, prostrate to other אֲחֵרִ֔ים (’ă·ḥê·rîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 312: Hinder, next, other gods, אֱלֹהִ֣ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative Links Deuteronomy 11:16 NIVDeuteronomy 11:16 NLT Deuteronomy 11:16 ESV Deuteronomy 11:16 NASB Deuteronomy 11:16 KJV Deuteronomy 11:16 BibleApps.com Deuteronomy 11:16 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 11:16 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 11:16 French Bible Deuteronomy 11:16 Catholic Bible OT Law: Deuteronomy 11:16 Take heed to yourselves lest your heart (Deut. 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