Joshua 24:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD; for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve Jehovah; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Then Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve the LORD, because he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He won’t forgive your rebellion and your sins.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people: "You will not be able to serve the Lord. For he is a holy and powerful God, and he is jealous, and he will not ignore your wickedness and sins.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And Josue said to the people: You will not be able to serve the Lord. For he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not forgive your wickedness and sins.

Joshua 24:19 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Psalm 99:3

Let them praise thy great and terrible name: Holy is he.

Psalm 99:5

Exalt ye the LORD our God, And worship at his footstool: Holy is he.

Psalm 99:9

Exalt ye the LORD our God, And worship at his holy hill; For the LORD our God is holy.

Exodus 20:5

thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;

Exodus 23:21

Take ye heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not: for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him.

Exodus 34:14

for thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

Exodus 34:7

keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin: and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

Isaiah 2:9

And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low; therefore forgive them not.

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Isaiah 30:11

get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Lord GOD the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not,

Isaiah 5:16

but the LORD of hosts is exalted in judgement, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the LORD your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

Leviticus 11:45

For I am the LORD that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Leviticus 19:2

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:26

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

Leviticus 20:7

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

Nahum 1:2

The LORD is a jealous God and avengeth; the LORD avengeth and is full of wrath; the LORD taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

Matthew 6:24

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Joshua 24:18

and the LORD drave out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore we also will serve the LORD; for he is our God.

Joshua 24:23

Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD, the God of Israel.

Ruth 1:15

And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god: return thou after thy sister in law.

1 Samuel 3:14

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

1 Samuel 6:20

And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?