Joshua 24:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ Then the people answered, “We will never stop following the Lord. We will never serve other gods!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The people answered, Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then the people answered, “God forbid that we ever leave the LORD to serve other gods!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And the people responded, and they said: "Far be it from us that we would forsake the Lord, and serve foreign gods.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And the people answered, and said: God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods.

Joshua 24:16 Cross References

Psalm 119:106

Your laws are good.\par I promise to obey them.\par And I will keep my promise.\par

Romans 3:6

No! If God could not punish us, then God could not judge the world.

Romans 6:2

No! We died to (quit living) our old sinful lives. So how can we continue living with sin?

Joshua 22:29

“Truly, we do not want to be against the Lord. We don’t want to stop following him now. We know that the only true altar is the one that is in front of the Holy Tent. That altar belongs to the Lord our God.”

Joshua 24:15

“But maybe you don’t want to serve the Lord. You must choose for yourselves today. Today you must decide who you will serve. Will you serve the gods that your ancestors worshiped when they lived on the other side of the Euphrates River? Or will you serve the gods of the Amorite people that lived in this land? You must choose for yourselves. But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord!”

Joshua 24:17

We know that it was the Lord God who brought our people out of Egypt. We were slaves in that land. But the Lord did great things for us there. He brought us out of that land and protected us while we traveled through other lands.

1 Samuel 12:23

And as for me, I would never stop praying for you. If I stopped praying for you, then I would be sinning against the Lord. I will continue to teach you the right way to live a good life.