Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version So be very careful to love the LORD your God. New Living Translation So be very careful to love the LORD your God. English Standard Version Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God. Berean Standard Bible Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God. King James Bible Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. New King James Version Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God. New American Standard Bible So take great care for yourselves that you love the LORD your God. NASB 1995 “So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God. NASB 1977 “So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God. Legacy Standard Bible So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God. Amplified Bible So be very careful and watchful of yourselves to love the LORD your God. Christian Standard Bible So diligently watch yourselves! Love the LORD your God! Holman Christian Standard Bible So be very diligent to love the LORD your God for your own well-being. American Standard Version Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Take good care in your souls to be in awe of LORD JEHOVAH your God! Brenton Septuagint Translation And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God. Contemporary English Version Be sure to always love the LORD your God. Douay-Rheims Bible 11This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God. English Revised Version Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. GOD'S WORD® Translation Be very careful to love the LORD your God. Good News Translation Be careful, then, to love the LORD your God. International Standard Version "So be very diligent to love the LORD your God, JPS Tanakh 1917 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. Literal Standard Version and you have been very watchful for yourselves to love your God YHWH. Majority Standard Bible Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God. New American Bible As for you, take great care to love the LORD, your God. NET Bible Watch yourselves carefully! Love the LORD your God! New Revised Standard Version Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God. New Heart English Bible And be very watchful of yourselves to love the LORD your God. Webster's Bible Translation Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. World English Bible Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God. Young's Literal Translation and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Joshua's Charge to Leaders…10One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised. 11Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God. 12For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,… Cross References Deuteronomy 4:15 So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful Joshua 23:10 One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised. Joshua 23:12 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, Treasury of Scripture Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God. Take good Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:9 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; Deuteronomy 6:5-12 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might… yourselves [heb] your souls Exodus 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 1 Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him. Jump to Previous Careful Diligent Heed Love Souls Watch Watchful YourselvesJump to Next Careful Diligent Heed Love Souls Watch Watchful YourselvesJoshua 23 1. Joshua's exhortation before his death3. by former benefits 5. by promises 11. and by threatenings Verse 11. - Take good heed to yourselves. This is quoted from Deuteronomy 4:15, word for word. The Hebrew is, take heed exceedingly to your souls; but the meaning is either "as you value your lives" (Gesenius), or "with all your soul" (Keil). The former appears preferable. A third interpretation, however, "guard your souls diligently," is suggested by a comparison of Deuteronomy 4:9, 15. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Therefore watchוְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֥ם (wə·niš·mar·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to yourselves לְנַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶ֑ם (lə·nap̄·šō·ṯê·ḵem) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion carefully, מְאֹ֖ד (mə·’ōḏ) Adverb Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily that you love לְאַהֲבָ֖ה (lə·’a·hă·ḇāh) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 157: To have affection f the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God. אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative Links Joshua 23:11 NIVJoshua 23:11 NLT Joshua 23:11 ESV Joshua 23:11 NASB Joshua 23:11 KJV Joshua 23:11 BibleApps.com Joshua 23:11 Biblia Paralela Joshua 23:11 Chinese Bible Joshua 23:11 French Bible Joshua 23:11 Catholic Bible OT History: Joshua 23:11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves that (Josh. 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