Joshua 23:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

or associate with these nations that remain near you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! You must not worship or bow down to them!

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:13 : 13 “Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods– do not let them be heard on your lips.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 their troubles multiply; they desire other gods. I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods, nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.
  • Jer 5:7 : 7 The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.
  • Exod 23:33 : 33 They must not live 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 7:2-3 : 2 and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy! 3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
  • Zeph 1:5 : 5 I will remove those who worship the stars in the sky from their rooftops, those who swear allegiance to the LORD while taking oaths in the name of their‘king,’
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived:“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
  • 2 Cor 6:14-17 : 14 Unequal Partners Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness? 15 And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever? 16 And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” 17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
  • Josh 23:12 : 12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,
  • Num 32:38 : 38 Nebo, Baal Meon(with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed the cities they built.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”
  • Prov 4:14 : 14 Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 6:13-14
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    13You must revere the LORD your God, serve him, and take oaths using only his name.

    14You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
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    35The LORD made a covenant with them and instructed them,“You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

  • Exod 23:32-33
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    32“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

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

  • Exod 23:24
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    24“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.

  • Exod 23:13
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    13“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods– do not let them be heard on your lips.

  • Deut 12:30-31
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    30After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say,“How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”

    31You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

  • Exod 34:14-15
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    14For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

  • Deut 12:4
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    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

  • Deut 10:20
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    20Revere the LORD your God, serve him, be loyal to him and take oaths only in his name.

  • Josh 23:8
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    8But you must be loyal to the LORD your God, as you have been to this very day.

  • Ps 81:9
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    9There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.

  • Deut 7:25-26
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    25You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

    26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

  • Deut 28:14
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    14But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

  • Josh 23:12
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    12But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,

  • 2 Kgs 17:37-38
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    37You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

    38You must never forget the covenant I made with you, and you must not worship other gods.

  • Jer 25:6
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    6Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

  • Deut 13:7
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    7the gods of the surrounding people(whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).

  • Lev 26:1
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    1Exhortation to Obedience“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the LORD your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Deut 4:23
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    23Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17You must not make yourselves molten gods.

  • Deut 4:28
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    28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

  • Lev 19:4
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    4Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.

  • 2 Chr 7:19
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    19“But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

  • Josh 23:6
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    6Be very strong! Carefully obey all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,

  • Lev 18:24
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    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

  • Deut 30:17
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    17However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

  • Deut 11:16
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    16Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!

  • Deut 29:17-18
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    17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

    18Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the LORD our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.

  • Exod 34:12
    73%

    12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.

  • Judg 2:2
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    2but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?

  • Deut 17:3
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    3by serving other gods and worshiping them– the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.

  • Deut 5:7
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    7You must not have any other gods besides me.

  • 2 Chr 30:8
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    8Now, 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.

  • Deut 4:19
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    19When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars– the whole heavenly creation– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the LORD your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.

  • Lev 18:3
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    3You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

  • Josh 24:14
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    14Now obey the LORD and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the LORD.

  • Deut 20:18
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    18so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

  • Josh 24:23
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    23Joshua said,“Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the LORD God of Israel.”

  • Josh 23:16
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    16If you violate the covenantal laws of the LORD your God which he commanded you to keep, and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, the LORD will be very angry with you and you will disappear quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

  • Jer 7:9
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    9You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known.