Deuteronomy 9:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 0 And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and containing all the words that he spoke to you in the mount from the midst of the Are, when the people were assembled together.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your [minds and] hearts do you go to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out before you, and that He may fulfill the promise which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Common English Bible

⁵ You aren’t entering and taking possession of their land because you are righteous or because your heart is especially virtuous; rather, it is because these nations are wicked—that’s why the LORD your God is removing them before you, and because he wishes to establish the promise he made to your ancestors: to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For it is not because of your justices or the uprightness of your heart that you will enter, so that you may possess their lands. Instead, it is because they have acted wickedly that they are destroyed upon your arrival, and so that the Lord may accomplish his word, which he promised under oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands. But because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9:5 Cross References

Genesis 12:7

And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15

5 All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

Genesis 15:16

6 But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.

Genesis 15:7

And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to gibe thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Genesis 19:29

9 Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

Genesis 26:4

And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 28:13

4 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.

Exodus 32:13

6 And made by the work of God: the writing also of God was graven in the tables.

Ezekiel 20:14

2 But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought them forth in their sight.

Ezekiel 36:22

0 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the held, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

Ezekiel 36:32

And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry.

Leviticus 18:24

9 Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 18:25

0 Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.

Micah 7:20

But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Acts 3:25

And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power, or by what name, have you done this?

Romans 11:28

6 For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

Romans 15:8

7 I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God.

Deuteronomy 1:8

3 Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.

Deuteronomy 12:31

Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.

Deuteronomy 18:12

7 And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.

Deuteronomy 18:9

4 These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to soothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 20:18

And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be nearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,

Titus 3:5

4 And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses: that they be not unfruitful.