Deuteronomy 12:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

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  • Deut 7:16 : 16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
  • Judg 2:2-3 : 2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done? 3 And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.
  • 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.
  • Ps 106:34-38 : 34 They did not put an end to the peoples, as the Lord had said; 35 But they were joined to the nations, learning their works. 36 And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them: 37 They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits, 38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
  • Jer 10:2 : 2 This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.
  • Ezek 20:28 : 28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.
  • Ezek 20:32 : 32 And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,
  • 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images; 4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:
  • Exod 23:31-33 : 31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you. 32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods. 33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.
  • Lev 18:3 : 3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.
  • Num 33:52 : 52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 34:12
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    12But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Deut 11:16
    80%

    16But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

  • Deut 12:31
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    31Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Josh 23:7
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    7Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Deut 6:14
    78%

    14Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Deut 4:23
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    23Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Deut 20:18
    78%

    18So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:28-29
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    78%

    28Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

    29When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

  • Deut 12:2-4
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    78%

    2You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

    3Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

    4Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Exod 34:15-17
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    15So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

    16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

    17Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Exod 23:24
    78%

    24Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

  • Josh 23:11-12
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    11So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.

    12For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

  • Deut 30:17
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    17But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

  • Exod 23:32-33
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    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

    33Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

  • Deut 7:25
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    25The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

  • Deut 13:7
    76%

    7Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

  • Deut 8:11
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    11Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
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    35And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Deut 18:14
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    14For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

  • Deut 12:19
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    19See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

  • Deut 4:19
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    19And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

  • Deut 28:14
    75%

    14Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.

  • Lev 18:3
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    3You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

  • Deut 12:13
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    13Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

  • Deut 7:16
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    16And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Deut 4:28
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    28There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Deut 4:15
    74%

    15So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

  • Deut 7:4
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    4For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

  • Deut 29:17
    73%

    17And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • Deut 13:2
    73%

    2And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship;

  • Deut 17:3
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    3By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

  • Deut 8:19
    73%

    19And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    73%

    7Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

  • Judg 2:2-3
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    73%

    2And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

    3And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

  • Ps 81:9
    73%

    9There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Josh 24:20
    73%

    20If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

  • Deut 13:12
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    12And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,

  • 2 Kgs 17:33
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    33They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
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    6But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship: