Deuteronomy 12:30

God's Word

After they’ve been destroyed, be careful you aren’t tempted to follow their customs. Don’t even ask about their gods and say, “How did these people worship their gods? We want to do what they did.”

Cross References

2 Kings 16:10

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath Pileser of Assyria. He saw an altar there in Damascus. So King Ahaz sent the priest Urijah a model of the altar and a set of detailed plans.

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his decrees, the promise  he made to their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They went after worthless idols and became as worthless as the idols. They behaved like the nations around them, although the Lord had commanded them not to do that.

Exodus 23:24

Never worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. Instead, you must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones.

Jeremiah 10:2

This is what the Lord says: Don’t learn the practices of the nations. Don’t be frightened by the signs in the sky because the nations are frightened by them.

Ezekiel 11:12

Then you will know that I am the Lord. You haven’t lived by my laws, and you haven’t obeyed my rules. You have followed the standards set by the nations around you.”

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land that I promised to give them. When they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, they made sacrifices and brought offerings there to make me angry. There they offered their sacrifices and poured out their wine offerings.

Ezekiel 20:32

What you have in mind will never happen. You think that you want to be like other nations, like the different people in other countries. You want to serve wood and stone.

Leviticus 18:3

You used to live in Egypt. Don’t live the way the Egyptians do. I am bringing you to Canaan. Don’t live the way the Canaanites do. Never live by their standards.

Leviticus 18:30

So you must follow my instructions. Don’t live by the standards of the people who lived there before you. What they do is disgusting. Never become unclean that way. I am the Lord your God.”

Numbers 33:52

As you advance, force out all the people who live there. Get rid of all their stone and metal idols, and destroy all their places of worship.

Romans 12:2

Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

Ephesians 4:17

So I tell you and encourage you in the Lord’s name not to live any longer like other people in the world. Their minds are set on worthless things.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Be careful, or you’ll be tempted to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

Deuteronomy 12:29

The Lord your God will destroy the nations where you’re going and force them out of your way. You will take possession of their land and live there.

Deuteronomy 12:31

Never worship the Lord your God in the way they worship their gods, because everything they do for their gods is disgusting to the Lord. He hates it! They even burn their sons and daughters as sacrifices to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, never learn the disgusting practices of those nations.

Deuteronomy 20:18

Otherwise, they will teach you to do all the disgusting things they do for their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the people the Lord your God hands over to you. Have no pity on them, and never worship their gods, because they will be a trap for you.