Joshua 24:20

Free Bible Version

if you give up on him and worship foreign gods. He will turn against you and destroy you despite all the good he has done for you.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:8

So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and as God listens, be sure to obey all the commandments of the Lord your God so that you may go on possessing this good land and be able to pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

1 Chronicles 28:9

Solomon my son, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with complete dedication and with a willing mind, for the Lord examines every motivation and understands the intention of every thought. If you look for him, you will find him; but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you look for him, you will find him; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Ezra 8:22

I had been reluctant to ask the king to give us a military escort to protect us from enemies on the way. We had told the king, “Our gracious God takes care of everyone who follows him, but shows his anger against anyone who abandons him.”

Psalm 89:31

if they break my decrees, and do not keep my commandments,

Isaiah 1:28

But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who abandon the Lord will die.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled against him, and caused his Holy Spirit grief, so to them he became like an enemy and he fought against them.

Jeremiah 17:13

Lord, you are Israel's hope. Anyone who deserts you will be disgraced. Anyone who turns their back on you will vanish like names written in the dust, for they have abandoned the Lord, the source of living water.

Ezekiel 18:24

But if someone who is living according to what's right stops and does wrong, doing the same offensive things as the wicked, will that person live? Of course not! In fact, all the good things they did previously will be forgotten. That person will die because of their betrayal of me and the sins they've committed.

Acts 7:42

So God gave up on them. He left them to their worship of the stars in the sky. This is what the prophets wrote, ‘Were you giving offerings or making sacrifices to me during the forty years in the desert, you Israelites?

Deuteronomy 4:25

After you have been living in the country for a long time and have had children and grandchildren, you may then spoil the relationship you have with the Lord and make an idol in some form. The Lord your God sees this as evil and it makes him angry.

Deuteronomy 4:26

If you do this, I call on heaven and earth to be witnesses against you today that you will be completely wiped out from the country that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. You will not live long there—you will be totally destroyed.

Hebrews 10:38

Those who do what is right will live by trusting in God, and if they draw back from their commitment, I won't be pleased with them.”

Joshua 24:21

“Don't say that!” the people replied. “We will worship the Lord!”

1 Samuel 12:15

However, if you refuse to do what he tells you, and rebel against the Lord's instructions, then the Lord will be against you as he was against your forefathers.

1 Samuel 12:25

But if you continue to do what is evil, you and your king will be wiped out.”