Deuteronomy 20:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so you would sin against the LORD your God.

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  • Deut 12:30-31 : 30 Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not enquire after their gods, asking, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise. 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • Exod 23:33 : 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
  • Ps 106:34-40 : 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them. 35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols, which were a snare to them. 37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood. 39 Thus they were defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own inventions. 40 Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against his people, so much so that he abhorred his own inheritance.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
  • 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 And if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, note that person and do not associate with him, that he may be ashamed.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
  • 2 Tim 2:17-18 : 17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, 18 who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.
  • Rev 18:3-5 : 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich through the abundance of her luxuries. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you may not be partakers of her sins, and that you may not receive her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
  • Exod 34:16 : 16 And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.
  • Deut 7:4-5 : 4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly. 5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
  • Deut 18:19 : 19 And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to My words which He shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.
  • Josh 23:13 : 13 Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
  • Judg 2:3 : 3 Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:9
    82%

    9When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Deut 12:30-31
    2 verses
    79%

    30Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not enquire after their gods, asking, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.

    31You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Lev 20:23
    78%

    23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Deut 20:17
    78%

    17But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • Deut 12:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.

    4You shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

  • Deut 18:12
    77%

    12For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

  • Lev 18:26-30
    5 verses
    77%

    26You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger who sojourns among you:

    27For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

    28That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.

    29For whoever commits any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

    30Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    77%

    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Exod 23:24
    76%

    24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

  • Lev 18:24
    76%

    24Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • Lev 18:3
    76%

    3You shall not do according to the practices of the land of Egypt, where you lived; and you shall not do according to the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you; you shall not walk in their ordinances.

  • Exod 34:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

    16And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

    17You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • Ezek 20:7
    76%

    7Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 29:17
    76%

    17And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

  • Exod 18:20
    76%

    20And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

  • Ezek 20:18
    76%

    18But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

  • Deut 8:20
    75%

    20As the nations which the LORD destroyed before your face, so shall you perish; because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

  • Exod 23:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

    33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.

  • Deut 25:16
    75%

    16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

    26Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • Deut 13:11
    75%

    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.

  • Deut 20:15
    75%

    15Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • Judg 2:2
    74%

    2And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars: but you have not obeyed my voice: why have you done this?

  • Deut 19:20
    74%

    20And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall no longer commit any such evil among you.

  • Exod 34:12
    74%

    12Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

  • Josh 6:18
    74%

    18And you, by all means keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    74%

    35The LORD made a covenant with them, and commanded them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them.

  • Ezek 20:4
    73%

    4Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Make them know the abominations of their fathers:

  • Deut 6:14
    73%

    14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people who are all around you;

  • Deut 4:3
    73%

    3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.

  • Deut 31:5
    73%

    5And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

  • Lev 18:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

    21And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

  • Deut 17:4
    73%

    4and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

  • Deut 7:4
    73%

    4For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

  • Deut 13:18
    73%

    18When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

  • Josh 23:7
    73%

    7That you do not come among these nations, those that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves down to them:

  • Deut 13:14
    73%

    14Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Deut 4:25
    73%

    25When you beget children, and children's children, and have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger: