Deuteronomy 12:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 17:6 : 6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.
  • Judg 21:25 : 25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
  • Prov 21:2 : 2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
  • Amos 5:25 : 25 Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
  • Acts 7:42 : 42 But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?
  • Num 15:39 : 39 So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:

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  • Judg 21:25
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    25In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.

  • Judg 17:6
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    6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

  • Deut 12:9
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    9For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Prov 21:2
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    2Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Deut 13:18
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    18So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:7
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    7There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • Deut 6:18
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    18And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Deut 5:32
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    32Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 11:32
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    32And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

  • Zech 8:16
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    16These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

  • Deut 16:18-20
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    18You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

    19You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

    20Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 17:10-11
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    10And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

    11Acting in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to one side or the other from the word they have given you.

  • Deut 12:28
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    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.

  • Deut 1:17-18
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    17In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.

    18And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.

  • Deut 12:4
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    4Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Exod 23:2
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    2Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

  • Deut 4:8
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    8And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

  • 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.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.

  • Jer 18:12
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    12But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.

  • Luke 12:57
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    57And why are you, in your hearts, unable to be judges of what is right?

  • Deut 29:9
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    9So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

  • Rom 14:12
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    12So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
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    61Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

  • Prov 14:12
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    12There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Deut 13:11
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    11And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

  • Deut 7:11
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    11So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

  • Deut 11:8
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    8So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

  • Deut 28:14
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    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.

  • Jer 16:12
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    12And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:

  • Ezra 7:18
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    18And whatever seems right to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, that do, as may be pleasing to your God.

  • Deut 12:32
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    32You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

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

  • Deut 12:30
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    30After 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.

  • Deut 8:1
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    1Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

  • Jer 34:15
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    15And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:

  • Lev 19:15
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    15Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

  • Lev 19:35
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    35Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

  • Ezek 33:20
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    20And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 6:25
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    25And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

  • Josh 23:8
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    8But be true to the Lord your God as you have been till this day.

  • 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:

  • Deut 12:1
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    1These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.