Deuteronomy 7:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ “If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If you say in your [minds and] hearts, These nations are greater than we are; how can we dispossess them?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ If you happen to think to yourself, These nations are greater than we are; how can we possibly possess their land?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ If you say in your heart, 'These nations are more than I am, so how will I be able to destroy them?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

Deuteronomy 7:17 Cross References

Isaiah 14:13

You said to yourself, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights of Zaphon;

Isaiah 47:8

Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”—

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say in your heart, “Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away— so who has reared these? I was left all alone— where, then, have these come from?”

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you are violated.

Numbers 13:32

So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great size.

Numbers 21:34

But the Lord said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have given him into your hand, with all his people and his land. You shall do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Numbers 33:53

You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Luke 9:47

But Jesus, aware of their inner thoughts, took a little child and put it by his side

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.

Deuteronomy 18:21

You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a word that the Lord has not spoken?’

Deuteronomy 8:17

Do not say to yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.’

Joshua 23:3

and you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.