Joshua 18:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will you delay to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?

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  • Judg 18:9 : 9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good; are you still? Do not be lazy to go and to enter to possess the land.
  • Prov 2:2-6 : 2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yes, if you cry out for knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding; 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; 5 Then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 10:4 : 4 He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
  • Zeph 3:16 : 16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear not: and to Zion, Let not your hands be weak.
  • Matt 20:6 : 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all day idle?
  • John 6:27 : 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give to you: for him God the Father has sealed.
  • Phil 3:13-14 : 13 Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
  • 2 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 Therefore, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance will be provided to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 13:1
    79%

    1Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the LORD said to him, You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

  • Deut 1:8
    78%

    8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.

  • Judg 18:9
    78%

    9And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good; are you still? Do not be lazy to go and to enter to possess the land.

  • Deut 1:21
    77%

    21Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has told you; do not fear, neither be discouraged.

  • Josh 18:2
    77%

    2And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

  • Josh 1:15
    77%

    15until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as he has given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise.

  • Deut 3:18
    76%

    18And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God has given you this land to possess; all you who are able shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel.

  • Josh 1:10-13
    4 verses
    76%

    10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

    11Pass through the camp and command the people, saying, Prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three days you shall cross over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

    12And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua spoke, saying,

    13Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God is giving you rest and is giving you this land.

  • Deut 1:38-39
    2 verses
    76%

    38But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

    39Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

  • Deut 11:31
    76%

    31For you shall pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.

  • Deut 31:7
    76%

    7And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.

  • Num 32:7
    75%

    7And why discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

  • Josh 11:23
    75%

    23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

  • Deut 31:3
    75%

    3The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy these nations before you, and you shall possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has said.

  • Deut 3:28
    75%

    28But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you see.

  • Josh 3:9
    75%

    9And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here and hear the words of the LORD your God.

  • Josh 18:4
    75%

    4Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them. They shall rise and go through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance, and return to me.

  • Deut 3:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20Until the LORD gives rest to your brethren, as He has to you, and they also possess the land the LORD your God has given them beyond the Jordan; then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.

    21And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings; so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms through which you pass.

  • Judg 2:6
    74%

    6And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

  • Num 33:53
    74%

    53and you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

  • Josh 14:1
    74%

    1And these are the lands which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed as inheritance to them.

  • Josh 1:6
    73%

    6Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.

  • Josh 1:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.

    3Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, I have given to you, as I said to Moses.

  • Josh 22:4
    73%

    4And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them; therefore now return and go back to your tents, and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.

  • Deut 10:11
    73%

    11And the LORD said to me, Arise, take your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.

  • Neh 9:24
    73%

    24So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished.

  • Deut 12:9
    73%

    9For you have not yet come to the rest and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Josh 5:6
    72%

    6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Num 32:22
    72%

    22And the land is subdued before the LORD: then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.

  • Deut 31:23
    72%

    23And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.

  • Josh 23:1
    72%

    1And it happened a long time after the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around, that Joshua grew old and advanced in age.

  • Judg 11:23
    72%

    23So now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it?

  • Deut 11:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Therefore, you shall keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you go to possess;

    9And that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Josh 21:43
    72%

    43And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which He had sworn to give their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.

  • Josh 18:8
    72%

    8And the men arose and went away; and Joshua charged those who went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, describe it, and return to me that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.

  • Num 33:51
    72%

    51Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you have crossed over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

  • Deut 9:5
    71%

    5It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Josh 7:10
    71%

    10And the LORD said to Joshua, Get up; why are you lying thus upon your face?