Joshua 23:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² For if you ever go back and cling to the remnant of these nations that are still remaining among you, and intermarry with them, and you associate with them and they with you,

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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,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:

Joshua 23:12 Cross References

Genesis 2:24

This is why a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife; and they become one flesh.

Genesis 34:3

But his soul clung to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, and he loved the young woman and spoke reassuringly to the young woman.

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations of whom Adonai had said to the children of Israel: “You shall not associate with them nor they associate with you, for surely they would turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon clung to them for love.

1 Kings 11:4

For it came about, as Solomon grew old, that his wives led his heart away after other gods, so that his heart was no longer wholly devoted to Adonai his God, unlike the heart of his father David.

Psalm 125:5

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Adonai will lead them away with evildoers. Shalom be upon Israel.

Psalm 36:3

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to notice his iniquity —or hate it.

Isaiah 1:4

Oy , a sinful nation, a people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons dealing corruptly! They have abandoned Adonai. They have despised Israel’s Holy One. They have turned backwards.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity and does according to all the detestable acts that the wicked man does, will he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered; for his trespass that he trespassed and for his sin that he has sinned, for them he will die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those turning from following Adonai, not seeking Adonai or consulting Him.

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. And that man’s last condition becomes worse than the first. So also will it be for this evil generation.”

John 6:66

From this time, many of His disciples left and quit walking with Him.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy—detesting what is evil, holding fast to the good.

Deuteronomy 6:15

for Adonai your God in the midst of you is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of Adonai your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you from the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:3

You are not to intermarry with them—you are not to give your daughter to his son, or take his daughter for your son.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For he will turn your son away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of Adonai will be kindled against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

Joshua 23:11

For your own sake, therefore, be most mindful to love Adonai your God.

1 John 2:9

The one who says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in the darkness.

Judges 14:3

Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your kinsmen, or among all our people, that you are going to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is the right one in my eyes.”

Judges 3:6

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