Deuteronomy 12:30

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.

Cross References

Ezekiel 20:32

Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by which you say: We will be as the Gentiles and as the families of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven which the heathens fear:

Ephesians 4:17

This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

Ezekiel 20:28

And I had brought them into the land for which I lifted up my hand to give it them. They saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings and there they set their sweet odours and poured forth their libations.

Deuteronomy 7:16

Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them: neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.

2 Kings 17:15

And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them. And they followed vanities, and acted vainly. And they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

Numbers 33:52

Destroy all the inhabitants of that land. Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,

Leviticus 18:3

You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

Exodus 23:24

Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works: but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.

Deuteronomy 12:29

When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which then shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land:

Deuteronomy 12:31

Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.

Deuteronomy 20:18

Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.

Leviticus 18:30

Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived: and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations.

2 Kings 16:10

And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar king of the Assyrians. And when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias the priest a pattern of it, and its likeness according to all the work thereof.

Ezekiel 11:12

And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have not walked in my commandments and have not done my judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you.