Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. New Living Translation But from there you will search again for the LORD your God. And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will find him. English Standard Version But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. Berean Standard Bible But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. King James Bible But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. New King James Version But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. New American Standard Bible But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. NASB 1995 “But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. NASB 1977 “But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. Legacy Standard Bible But from there you will seek Yahweh your God, and you will find Him, for you will search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. Amplified Bible But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. Christian Standard Bible But from there, you will search for the LORD your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Holman Christian Standard Bible But from there, you will search for the LORD your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul. American Standard Version But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. English Revised Version But if from thence ye shall seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou search after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. GOD'S WORD® Translation But if you look for the LORD your God when you are among those nations, you will find him whenever you search for him with all your heart and with all your soul. Good News Translation There you will look for the LORD your God, and if you search for him with all your heart, you will find him. International Standard Version If from there you will seek the LORD your God, then you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and soul. Majority Standard Bible But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. NET Bible But if you seek the LORD your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul. New Heart English Bible But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. Webster's Bible Translation But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. World English Bible But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Young's Literal Translation 'And -- ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, Smith's Literal Translation And thou sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and thou didst find, for ye shall seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul. Catholic Public Domain Version And when you will seek the Lord your God in that place, you shall find him, if only you seek him with all your heart, and in all the tribulation of your soul. New American Bible Yet when you seek the LORD, your God, from there, you shall indeed find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul. New Revised Standard Version From there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleBut if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you search for him with all your heart and with all your soul. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And you shall seek LORD JEHOVAH your God there, and you shall find him when you will search for him from all your heart and from all your soul. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917But from thence ye will seek the LORD thy God; and thou shalt find Him, if thou search after Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Brenton Septuagint Translation And there ye shall seek the Lord your God, and ye shall find him whenever ye shall seek him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Warning Against Idolatry…28And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. 29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.… Cross References Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. Matthew 7:7-8 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. / For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me. Acts 17:27 God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. James 4:8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 2 Chronicles 15:2 So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. Psalm 119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart. 1 Chronicles 28:9 As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever. Luke 11:9-10 So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. / For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Lamentations 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. Amos 5:4 For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live! John 4:23-24 But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. / God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain. Treasury of Scripture But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. But if Deuteronomy 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Leviticus 26:39-42 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them… 2 Chronicles 15:4,15 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them… with all Deuteronomy 30:1-3 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, … 1 Kings 8:47,48 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; … 2 Kings 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. Jump to Previous Heart Lands Search Searchest Searching Seek Seekest Sought Soul Thence Turned WholeJump to Next Heart Lands Search Searchest Searching Seek Seekest Sought Soul Thence Turned WholeDeuteronomy 4 1. An exhortation to obedience41. Moses appoints the three cities of refuge on that side of Jordan 44. Recapitulation But if from there This phrase sets the stage for a conditional promise. The context here is crucial; Moses is addressing the Israelites, warning them of the consequences of idolatry and disobedience. "From there" refers to a place of exile or distress, a situation resulting from turning away from God. Historically, this reflects the cyclical pattern of Israel's relationship with God—obedience leading to blessing, disobedience leading to exile. The Hebrew word for "there" (שָׁם, sham) emphasizes a specific location or state, often one of separation from God's intended blessings. you will seek the LORD your God you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew But if from thereמִשָּׁ֛ם (miš·šām) Preposition-m | Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither you will seek וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם (ū·ḇiq·qaš·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God, אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative you will find וּמָצָ֑אתָ (ū·mā·ṣā·ṯā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present Him כִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction if you seek תִדְרְשֶׁ֔נּוּ (ṯiḏ·rə·šen·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 1875: To tread, frequent, to follow, to seek, ask, to worship Him with all בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every your heart לְבָבְךָ֖ (lə·ḇā·ḇə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart and all וּבְכָל־ (ū·ḇə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every your soul. נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃ (nap̄·še·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion Links Deuteronomy 4:29 NIVDeuteronomy 4:29 NLT Deuteronomy 4:29 ESV Deuteronomy 4:29 NASB Deuteronomy 4:29 KJV Deuteronomy 4:29 BibleApps.com Deuteronomy 4:29 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 4:29 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 4:29 French Bible Deuteronomy 4:29 Catholic Bible OT Law: Deuteronomy 4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh (Deut. 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