Joshua 24:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

Psalm 99:3

Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he.

Psalm 99:5

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.

Psalm 99:9

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

Exodus 20:5

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Exodus 23:21

Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.

Exodus 34:14

For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

Exodus 34:7

Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

Isaiah 2:9

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Isaiah 30:11

Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

Isaiah 30:15

For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

Leviticus 11:45

For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.

Leviticus 19:2

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Leviticus 20:26

And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

Leviticus 20:7

So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

Nahum 1:2

The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

Habakkuk 1:13

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

Matthew 6:24

No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

Joshua 24:18

And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.

Joshua 24:23

Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Ruth 1:15

And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

1 Samuel 3:14

So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.

1 Samuel 6:20

And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?