Deuteronomy 9:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ “It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wrong of these nations that יהוה  your Elohim drives them out from before you, in order to establish the word which יהוה  swore to your fathers, to Aḇ

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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.

Deuteronomy 9:5 Cross References

Genesis 12:7

And יהוה  appeared to Aḇ

Genesis 13:15

for all the land which you see I shall give to you and your seed forever.

Genesis 15:16

“Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Genesis 15:7

And He said to him, “I am יהוה, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”

Genesis 17:8

“And I shall give to you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Kenaʽ

Genesis 19:29

Thus it came to be, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Aḇ

Genesis 26:4

“And I shall increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Genesis 28:13

And see, יהוה  stood above it and said, “I am יהוה  Elohim of Aḇ

Exodus 32:13

“Remember Aḇ

Ezekiel 20:14

“But I acted for My Name’s sake, not to profane it before the gentiles, before whose eyes I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 36:22

“Therefore say to the house of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 36:32

“Not for your sake am I acting,” declares the Master יהוה, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and blush for your ways, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Leviticus 18:24

‘Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you.

Leviticus 18:25

‘Thus the land became defiled, therefore I punished it for its crookedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Micah 7:20

You give truth to Yaʽ

Acts 3:25

“You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which Elohim made with our fathers, saying to Aḇ

Romans 11:28

Truly, as regards the Good News they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

Romans 15:8

And I say that יהושע  Messiah has become a servant of the circumcised for the truth of Elohim, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

Deuteronomy 1:8

‘See, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which יהוה  swore to your fathers, to Aḇ

Deuteronomy 12:31

“Do not do so to יהוה  your Elohim, for every abomination which יהוה  hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones.

Deuteronomy 18:12

“For whoever does these are an abomination to יהוה, and because of these abominations יהוה  your Elohim drives them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 18:9

“When you come into the land which יהוה  your Elohim is giving you, do not learn to do according to the abominations of those gentiles.

Deuteronomy 20:18

lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin against יהוה  your Elohim.

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His compassion, through the washing of rebirth, and renewal by the Set-apart Spirit,