Joshua 23:12

Good News Translation

If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them,

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.

Genesis 34:3

But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection.

1 Kings 11:2

He married them even though the Lord had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with these people, because they would cause the Israelites to give their loyalty to other gods.

1 Kings 11:4

and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

Psalm 125:5

But when you punish the wicked, punish also those who abandon your ways. Peace be with Israel!

Psalm 36:3

Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good.

Isaiah 1:4

You are doomed, you sinful nation, you corrupt and evil people! Your sins drag you down! You have rejected the Lord, the holy God of Israel, and have turned your backs on him.

Ezekiel 18:24

“But if a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing all the evil, disgusting things that evil people do, will he go on living? No! None of the good he did will be remembered. He will die because of his unfaithfulness and his sins.

Zephaniah 1:6

I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them.”

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day.”

John 6:66

Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more.

Romans 12:9

Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good.

Deuteronomy 6:15

If you do worship other gods, the Lord's anger will come against you like fire and will destroy you completely, because the Lord your God, who is present with you, tolerates no rivals.

Deuteronomy 7:3

Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them,

Deuteronomy 7:4

because then they would lead your children away from the Lord to worship other gods. If that happens, the Lord will be angry with you and destroy you at once.

Joshua 23:11

Be careful, then, to love the Lord your God.

1 John 2:9

If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother asked him, “Why do you have to go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can't you find someone in our own clan, among all our people?” But Samson told his father, “She is the one I want you to get for me. I like her.”

Judges 3:6

They intermarried with them and worshiped their gods.