Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. New Living Translation Serve only the LORD your God and fear him alone. Obey his commands, listen to his voice, and cling to him. English Standard Version You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. Berean Standard Bible You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him. King James Bible Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. New King James Version You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. New American Standard Bible You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. NASB 1995 “You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. NASB 1977 “You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. Legacy Standard Bible You shall walk after Yahweh your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. Amplified Bible You shall walk after the LORD your God and you shall fear [and worship] Him [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect], and you shall keep His commandments and you shall listen to His voice, and you shall serve Him, and cling to Him. Christian Standard Bible You must follow the LORD your God and fear him. You must keep his commands and listen to him; you must worship him and remain faithful to him. Holman Christian Standard Bible You must follow the LORD your God and fear Him. You must keep His commands and listen to His voice; you must worship Him and remain faithful to Him. American Standard Version Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. Contemporary English Version You must be completely faithful to the LORD. Worship and obey only the LORD and do this with fear and trembling, English Revised Version Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. GOD'S WORD® Translation Worship the LORD your God, fear him, obey his commands, listen to what he says, serve him, and be loyal to him. Good News Translation Follow the LORD and honor him; obey him and keep his commands; worship him and be faithful to him. International Standard Version You must follow the LORD your God, fear him, observe his commandments, listen to his voice, serve him, and cling to him. Majority Standard Bible You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him. NET Bible You must follow the LORD your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him. New Heart English Bible You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him. Webster's Bible Translation Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave to him. World English Bible You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionyou walk after your God YHWH, and you fear Him, and you keep His commands, and you listen to His voice, and you serve Him, and you cleave to Him. Young's Literal Translation after Jehovah your God ye walk, and Him ye fear, and His commands ye keep, and to His voice ye hearken, and Him ye serve, and to Him ye cleave. Smith's Literal Translation Ye shall go after Jehovah your God, and ye shall fear him, and his commands shall ye watch, and to his voice shall ye hear, and ye shall serve him, and to him shall ye cleave. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFollow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave. Catholic Public Domain Version Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and listen to his voice. Him shall you serve, and to him shall you cling. New American Bible The LORD, your God, shall you follow, and him shall you fear; his commandments shall you observe, and to his voice shall you listen; him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast. New Revised Standard Version The LORD your God you shall follow, him alone you shall fear, his commandments you shall keep, his voice you shall obey, him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleYou shall walk after the LORD your God, and reverence him and keep his commandments and obey him, and you shall serve him and cleave to him. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Go after LORD JEHOVAH your God and stand in awe of him and keep his commandments and listen to him and serve him and cling to Him. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917After the LORD your God shall ye walk, and Him shall ye fear, and His commandments shall ye keep, and unto His voice shall ye hearken, and Him shall ye serve, and unto Him shall ye cleave. Brenton Septuagint Translation Ye shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and ye shall hear his voice, and attach yourselves to him. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Idolaters to Be Put to Death…3you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him. 5Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.… Cross References Joshua 22:5 But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 1 Samuel 12:14 If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well. 2 Kings 17:13 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.” 2 Kings 23:3 So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant. Nehemiah 1:5 Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments, Psalm 119:1-3 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD. / Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart. / They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways. Isaiah 8:13 The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded. Jeremiah 7:23 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. Jeremiah 26:13 So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you. Ezekiel 11:20 so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God. Matthew 22:37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.” John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. Acts 5:29 But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men. Treasury of Scripture You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and join to him. walk Deuteronomy 6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. 2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. 2 Chronicles 34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. and obey Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. and cleave Deuteronomy 10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Jump to Previous Cleave Cling Commandments Commands Hear Hearing Hearken Hold Keeping Obey Orders Revere Serve Voice Walk Ways WorshippingJump to Next Cleave Cling Commandments Commands Hear Hearing Hearken Hold Keeping Obey Orders Revere Serve Voice Walk Ways WorshippingDeuteronomy 13 1. Enticers to idolatry6. however near to oneself 9. are to be stoned to death 12. Idolatrous cities are not to be spared You shall follow The Hebrew root for "follow" is "הלך" (halak), which means to walk or go. In the context of Deuteronomy, this word implies a continuous, active pursuit of God's ways. It is not a passive acknowledgment but a deliberate choice to align one's life with God's commandments. Historically, this call to follow God was a reminder to the Israelites to remain distinct from the surrounding nations and their practices. For the modern believer, it is a call to live a life that reflects God's character and teachings. the LORD your God and fear Him Keep His commandments and listen to His voice serve Him and hold fast to Him Hebrew You are to followתֵּלֵ֖כוּ (tê·lê·ḵū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk the LORD יְהוָ֧ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3069: YHWH your God אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֛ם (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative and וְאֹת֣וֹ (wə·’ō·ṯōw) Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker | third person masculine singular Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case fear Him. תִירָ֑אוּ (ṯî·rā·’ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten Keep תִּשְׁמֹ֙רוּ֙ (tiš·mō·rū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to His commandments מִצְוֺתָ֤יו (miṣ·wō·ṯāw) Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 4687: Commandment and listen תִשְׁמָ֔עוּ (ṯiš·mā·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently to His voice; וּבְקֹל֣וֹ (ū·ḇə·qō·lōw) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 6963: A voice, sound serve תַעֲבֹ֖דוּ (ṯa·‘ă·ḇō·ḏū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave Him וּב֥וֹ (ū·ḇōw) Conjunctive waw | Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew and hold Him fast. תִדְבָּקֽוּן׃ (ṯiḏ·bā·qūn) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun Strong's 1692: To impinge, cling, adhere, to catch by pursuit Links Deuteronomy 13:4 NIVDeuteronomy 13:4 NLT Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV Deuteronomy 13:4 NASB Deuteronomy 13:4 KJV Deuteronomy 13:4 BibleApps.com Deuteronomy 13:4 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 13:4 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 13:4 French Bible Deuteronomy 13:4 Catholic Bible OT Law: Deuteronomy 13:4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God (Deut. 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