Deuteronomy 12:30

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But be careful that you don’t fall into the same trap they did! Don’t go to their false gods for help. Don’t say to yourself, ‘They worshiped these gods, so I will worship them too.’

Cross References

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!’”

Jeremiah 10:2

This is what the Lord says: “Don’t live like people from other nations. Don’t be afraid of special signs in the sky. The other nations are afraid of what they see in the sky. But you must not be afraid of them.

Ephesians 4:17

I have something from the Lord to tell you. I warn you: Don’t continue living like those who don’t believe. Their thoughts are worth nothing.

Ezekiel 20:28

But I still brought them to the land I promised to give 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 to all those places. They offered their sacrifices that made a sweet smell, and they offered their drink offerings at those places.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the people the Lord your God helps you defeat. Don’t feel sorry for them, and don’t worship their gods! They will trap you—they will ruin your life.

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 understand and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.

2 Kings 17:15

They refused to follow his laws and the agreement he made with their ancestors. They would not listen to his warnings. They worshiped idols that were worth nothing and they themselves became worth nothing. The Lord had warned them not to do the evil things that the people in the nations around them did. But they lived the same way those people lived.

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.

Leviticus 18:3

You must not follow the customs of Egypt where you lived, and you must not follow the customs of the Canaanites where I am leading you. You must not live the way they do.

Exodus 23:24

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

Deuteronomy 12:29

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

Deuteronomy 12:31

Don’t do that to the Lord your God! These people do all kinds of bad things that the Lord hates. They even burn their children as sacrifices to their gods!

Deuteronomy 20:18

So then they will not be able to teach you to sin against the Lord your God or to do any of the terrible things they do when they worship their gods.

Leviticus 18:30

Other people have done these terrible sins, but you must obey my laws. You must not do any of these terrible sins. Do not make yourself filthy with these terrible sins. I am the Lord your God.”

Deuteronomy 11:16

“He says, ‘Be careful! Don’t be fooled. Don’t turn away from me to serve other gods and to bow down to them.’

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.

2 Kings 16:10

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

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.”