Joshua 23:7

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Have 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:

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  • Exod 23:13 : 13 Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.
  • Jer 5:7 : 7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
  • Exod 23:33 : 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.
  • Deut 7:2-3 : 2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them: 3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
  • Zeph 1:5 : 5 And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
  • 2 Cor 6:14-17 : 14 Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark? 15 And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not? 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Josh 23:12 : 12 For 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:
  • Num 32:38 : 38 And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.
  • Prov 4:14 : 14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 6:13-14
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    13 Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
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    35 And 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:

  • Exod 23:32-33
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    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.

  • Exod 23:24
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    24 Do 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.

  • Exod 23:13
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    13 Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

  • Deut 12:30-31
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    30 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.

    31 Do 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.

  • Exod 34:14-15
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    14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

    15 So 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,

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

  • Deut 10:20
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    20 Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.

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

  • Ps 81:9
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    9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Deut 7:25-26
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    25 The 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:

    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Deut 28:14
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    14 Not 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.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9 When 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.

  • Josh 23:12
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    12 For 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:

  • 2 Kgs 17:37-38
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    37 And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.

    38 And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

  • Jer 25:6
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    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Deut 13:7
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    7 Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

  • Lev 26:1
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    1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

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

  • Deut 4:23
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    23 Take 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.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Deut 4:28
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    28 There 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.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • Lev 19:4
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    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • 2 Chr 7:19
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    19 But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

  • Josh 23:6
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    6 So be very strong to keep and do whatever is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, not turning away from it to the right or to the left;

  • Lev 18:24
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    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Deut 30:17
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    17 But 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:

  • Deut 11:16
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    16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

  • Deut 29:17-18
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    17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

    18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

  • Exod 34:12
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    12 But 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.

  • Judg 2:2
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    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?

  • Deut 17:3
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    3 By 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 5:7
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    7 You are to have no other gods but me.

  • 2 Chr 30:8
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    8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

  • Deut 4:19
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    19 And 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.

  • Lev 18:3
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    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.

  • Josh 24:14
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    14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.

  • Deut 20:18
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    18 So 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.

  • Josh 24:23
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    23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Josh 23:16
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    16 If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given to you by his orders, is broken, and you become the servants of other gods and give them worship, then the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and you will quickly be cut off from the good land which he has given you.

  • Jer 7:9
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    9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;