Joshua 23:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² For if you turn back and join the survivors of these nations left here among you and intermarry with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For if you turn back and adhere to the remnant of these nations left among you and make marriages with them, you marrying their women and they yours,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

Common English Bible

¹² But if you should turn away and join the rest of these nations that remain with you, intermarry with them, and associate with each other,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But if you choose to cling to the errors of these nations that live among you, and to mix with them by marriage, and to join with them by friendship,

Joshua 23:12 Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:3

Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity and do the same abominable things that the wicked do, shall they live? None of the righteous deeds that they have done shall be remembered, for the treachery of which they are guilty and the sin they have committed, they shall die.

1 John 2:9

Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.

Romans 12:9

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;

John 6:66

Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”

Isaiah 1:4

Woe, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who act corruptly, who have forsaken the Lord, who have despised the Holy One of Israel, [[who are utterly estranged!]]

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, the Lord will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good.

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the Israelites, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

Genesis 34:3

And his soul was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Deuteronomy 7:4

for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Joshua 23:11

Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.

Judges 3:6

and they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

Deuteronomy 6:15

because the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a jealous God. The anger of the Lord your God would be kindled against you and he would destroy you from the face of the earth.

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among your kin or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, because she pleases me.”