Deuteronomy 9:6
Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people!
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- Deut 9:13 : 13 Moreover, he said to me,“I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!
- Deut 10:16 : 16 Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!
- Deut 31:27 : 27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the LORD; you will be even more rebellious after my death!
- Exod 32:9 : 9 Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!
- Exod 33:3 : 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”
- Exod 34:9 : 9 and said,“If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
- Deut 9:3-4 : 3 Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you. 4 Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.
- 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.
- 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return to the LORD God of Israel.
- Ps 78:8 : 8 Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.
- Isa 48:3-4 : 3 “I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass. 4 I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.
- Ezek 2:4 : 4 The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, and you must say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says.’
- Ezek 20:44 : 44 Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for the sake of my reputation and not according to your wicked conduct and corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
- Zech 7:11-12 : 11 “But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear. 12 Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had poured out great wrath.
- Acts 7:51 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
- Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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- Deut 9:2-54 verses85%
2 They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said,“Who is able to resist the Anakites?”
3 Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you.
4 Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.
5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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13 Moreover, he said to me,“I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!
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3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”
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9 Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!
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16 Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!
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8 Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.
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38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.
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6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
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18 Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
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9 for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.
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16 “But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.
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6 Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them.
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2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
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7 The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.
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27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.
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23 And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you,“Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the LORD your God and would neither believe nor obey him.
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35 Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible goodness that you had lavished on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.
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29 The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
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31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.
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20 You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.
21 But the LORD became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.
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30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the LORD our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.
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5 For the LORD had said to Moses,“Tell the Israelites,‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”
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8 When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a covenant with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.
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53 You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
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9 I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.
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21 Look, he has placed the land in front of you! Go up, take possession of it, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”
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29 They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.
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23 Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?
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15 for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.
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19 Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.
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8 Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”
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13 know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.
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11 which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words:‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents! With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness.
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14 Laws Concerning Witnesses You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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9 The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.
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3 For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them.
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6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?
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5 Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.
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17 If you think,“These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”
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23 then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
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13 I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’
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10 Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
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1 Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed
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53 After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
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5 The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the LORD your God promised you.
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52 You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”