Deuteronomy 12:30

Easy To Read Version

After that happens, be careful! You will destroy those people. So don’t fall into the trap of worshiping their false gods. Be careful! Don’t go to those false gods for help. Don’t say, ‘Those people worshiped these gods, so I will worship that way too!’

Cross References

2 Kings 16:10

King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria. Ahaz saw the altar [191] at Damascus. King Ahaz sent a model and pattern of this altar to Uriah the priest.

2 Kings 17:15

The people refused the Lord’s laws and his Agreement that he made with their ancestors. They refused to listen to the Lord’s warnings. They worshiped idols [208] that were worth nothing and they themselves became worth nothing. They lived like the people in the nations around them. They did those bad things. And the Lord had warned the people of Israel. The Lord told them not to do those bad things.

Exodus 23:24

“Don’t worship the gods of those people. Don’t ever bow down to those gods. You must never live the way those people live. You must destroy their idols. [151] And you must break the stones that help them remember their gods. [152]

Jeremiah 10:2

This is what the Lord says:

Ezekiel 11:12

Then you will know that I am the Lord. It was my law that you broke! You did not obey my commands. You decided to live like the nations around you.”

Ezekiel 20:28

But I still brought them to the land I promised to give to them. They saw all the hills and green trees, so they went to all those places to worship. They took their sacrifices and anger offerings {\cf2\super [144]} to all those places. They offered their sacrifices that made a sweet smell and they offered their drink offerings at those places.

Ezekiel 20:32

You keep saying you want to be like the other nations. You live like the people in other nations. You serve pieces of wood and stone (idols)!’”

Leviticus 18:3

In the past, you lived in Egypt. You must not do the things that were done in that country! I am leading you to Canaan. You must not do the things that are done in that country! Don’t follow their customs.

Leviticus 18:30

Other people have done those terrible sins. But you must obey my laws! You must not do any of those terrible sins! Don’t make yourself filthy with those terrible sins! I am the Lord your God.”

Numbers 33:52

You will take the land from the people you find there. You must destroy all of their carved statues and idols. You must destroy all of their high places. [378]

Romans 12:2

Don’t change yourselves to be like the people of this world. But let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what things are good and pleasing to God and what things are perfect.

Ephesians 4:17

For the Lord I tell you this. I warn you: Don’t continue living like those people who don’t believe. Their thoughts are worth nothing.

Deuteronomy 11:16

“But be careful! Don’t be fooled. Don’t turn away to serve and worship other gods.

Deuteronomy 12:29

“You are going to take your land from other people. The Lord your God will destroy those people for you. You will force those people out of that land, and you will live there.

Deuteronomy 12:31

Don’t do that to the Lord your God! {Don’t worship God like that! Why?} Because those people do all kinds of bad things that the Lord hates. They even burn their children as sacrifices to their gods!

Deuteronomy 18:9

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, don’t learn to do the terrible things the people of the other nations there do.

Deuteronomy 20:18

Why? Because then they won’t be able teach you to sin against the Lord your God. They will not be able to teach you to do any of the terrible things they do when they worship their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the people that the Lord your God helps you defeat. Don’t feel sorry for them. Don’t worship their gods! Why? Because they are a trap—{they will ruin your life}.