Deuteronomy 11:18-28

New International Version

¹⁸ Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.^{(A) 19} Teach them to your children,^(B) talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.^{(C) 20} Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,^{(D) 21} so that your days and the days of your children may be many^(E) in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.^(F)

²² If you carefully observe^(G) all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love^(H) the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast^(I) to him— ²³ then the Lord will drive out^(J) all these nations^(K) before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.^{(L) 24} Every place where you set your foot will be yours:^(M) Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River^(N) to the Mediterranean Sea. ²⁵ No one will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror^(O) and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.^(P)

²⁶ See, I am setting before you today a blessing^(Q) and a curse^(R)— ²⁷ the blessing^(S) if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; ²⁸ the curse if you disobey^(T) the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods,^(U) which you have not known.