Deuteronomy 30 · Verse 6

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Deuteronomy 30:6, King James Version

Deuteronomy 30:6 in other translations

BSBThe LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
WEBThe LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
ASVAnd Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
YLT‘And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;
DARBYAnd Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
BBEAnd the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
WebsterAnd the LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

What does Deuteronomy 30:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 30:1-10

De 30:1-10. Great Mercies Promised unto the Penitent. 1-10. when all these things are come upon thee, ... and thou shalt return ... then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity--The hopes of the Hebrew people are ardently directed to this promise, and they confidently expect that God, commiserating their forlorn and fallen condition, will yet rescue them from all the evils of their long dispersion. They do not…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 God will circumcise thine heart - This promise remains yet to be fulfilled. Their heart, as a people, has never yet been circumcised; nor have the various promises in this chapter been ever yet fulfilled. There remaineth, therefore, a rest for this people of God. Now, as the law, properly speaking, made no provision for the circumcision of the heart, which implies the remission of sins, and purification of the soul from all unrighteousness; and as circumcision itself was only a sign of spiritual good, consequently the promise here refers to the days of the Messiah, and to this all the prophets and all the apostles give witness: "for circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter," Rom 2:29; and the genuine followers of God are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands - by the circumcision of Christ," Col 2:11, Col 2:12. Hence we see these promises cannot be fulfilled to the Jews but in their embracing the Gospel of Christ. To look, therefore, for their restoration is idle and nugatory, while their obstinacy and unbelief remain.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 30:1-10

In this chapter is a plain intimation of the mercy God has in store for Israel in the latter days. This passage refers to the prophetic warnings of the last two chapters, which have been mainly fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and in their dispersion to the present day; and there can be no doubt that the prophetic promise contained in these verses yet remain to come to pass. The Jewish nation…

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Deuteronomy 30:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּמָ֨לu.Maland he will circumciseH4135
יְהוָ֧הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
לְבָבְךָ֖le.va.ve.Khaheart yourH3824
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
לְבַ֣בle.Vav[the] heart ofH3824
זַרְעֶ֑ךָzar.'E.khaoffspring yourH2233
לְאַהֲבָ֞הle.'a.ha.Vahto loveH157
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יְהוָ֧הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430
בְּכָל\־be.kholwith allH3605
לְבָבְךָ֥le.va.ve.Khaheart yourH3824
וּבְכָל\־u.ve.Khol-and with allH3605
נַפְשְׁךָ֖naf.she.Khabeing yourH5315
לְמַ֥עַןle.Ma.'anfor [the] sake ofH4616
חַיֶּֽיךָ\׃chai.Yei.khalife yourH2416

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 30:6

  • Ezekiel 36:26-27

    A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

  • Deuteronomy 10:16

    Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

  • Jeremiah 32:39

    And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

  • Ezekiel 11:19-20

    And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

  • Romans 2:28-29

    For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

  • Colossians 2:11

    In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

  • Jeremiah 4:4

    Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

  • 1 John 5:3-4

    For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

  • Deuteronomy 6:5

    And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:17

    Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

  • Matthew 22:37

    Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

  • 1 John 4:7

    Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
will circumcise.
10:16; Jer 4:4; 9:26; 32:39; Eze 11:19,20; 36:26,27; Joh 3:3-7
Ro 2:28,29; 11:26; 2Co 5:17; Col 2:11
to love the Lord.
6:5; Ex 20:6; Mt 22:37; Ro 8:28; 1Co 8:3; Jas 1:12; 2:5; 1Jo 4:7
1Jo 4:16-19; 5:3,4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 30:5

    And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

  • Deuteronomy 30:6

    And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

  • Deuteronomy 30:7

    And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

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Deuteronomy 30:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y circuncidará Jehová tu Dios tu corazón, y el corazón de tu simiente, para que ames á Jehová tu Dios con todo tu corazón y con toda tu alma, á fin de que tú vivas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, circoncira ton cœur et le cœur de ta semence, pour que tu aimes l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, de tout ton cœur et de toute ton âme, afin que tu vives;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Jehova, dein Gott, wird dein Herz und das Herz deiner Kinder beschneiden, damit du Jehova, deinen Gott, liebest mit deinem ganzen Herzen und mit deiner ganzen Seele, auf daß du am Leben bleibest.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Circumcidet Dominus Deus tuus cor tuum, et cor seminis tui, ut diligas Dominum Deum tuum in toto corde tuo, et in tota anima tua, ut possis vivere.