Joshua 23:12

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Never stop following him. Don’t become friends with those people who did not leave when you took the land. They are not part of Israel. Don’t marry any of their people. If you become friends with those people,

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:3

Don’t marry any of them, and don’t let your sons or daughters marry any of the people from those other nations.

Zephaniah 1:6

They have turned away from me, the Lord. They have stopped following me. They no longer ask me, the Lord, for help.”

Ezekiel 18:24

“Now, maybe good people might stop being good. They might change their lives and begin to do all the terrible things that evil people have done in the past. (The evil people changed, so they can live.) So if those good people change and become bad, God will not remember all the good things they did. He will remember that they turned against him and began to sin. So they will die because of their sin.

1 John 2:9

Someone might say, “I am in the light,” but if they hate any of their brothers or sisters in God’s family, they are still in the darkness.

Romans 12:9

Your love must be real. Hate what is evil. Do only what is good.

John 6:66

After Jesus said these things, many of his followers left and stopped following him.

Matthew 12:45

Then the evil spirit goes out and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself. They all go and live there, and that person has even more trouble than before. It is the same way with the evil people who live today.”

Isaiah 1:4

Oh, what a sinful nation! Their guilt is like a heavy weight that they must carry. They are evil, destructive children. They left the Lord and insulted the Holy One of Israel. They turned away and treated him like a stranger.

Psalm 125:5

But, Lord, when you punish those who do evil, also punish those who have stopped following your way. Let Israel always enjoy peace!

Psalm 36:3

Their words are wicked lies. They have stopped doing anything wise or good.

1 Kings 11:4

When Solomon was old, his wives caused him to follow other gods, so he did not follow the Lord completely as his father David did.

1 Kings 11:2

In the past the Lord had said to the Israelites, “You must not marry people from other nations. If you do, they will cause you to follow their gods.” But Solomon fell in love with these women.

Genesis 34:3

But he was so attracted to her that he fell in love and began expressing his feelings to her.

Genesis 2:24

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. In this way two people become one.

Deuteronomy 7:4

If you do, they will turn your children away from following me. Then your children will serve other gods, and the Lord will be very angry with you. He will quickly destroy you!

Joshua 23:11

So you must continue to love the Lord your God.

Judges 3:6

The Israelites began to marry the daughters of those people. They allowed their own daughters to marry the sons of those people. The Israelites also began to worship their gods.

Deuteronomy 6:15

The Lord your God is always with you, and he hates for his people to worship other gods! So if you follow those other gods, the Lord will become very angry with you. He will destroy you from the face of the earth.

Judges 14:3

His father and his mother answered, “But surely there is a woman from the Israelites you can marry. Do you have to marry a woman from the Philistines? Their men are not even circumcised.” But Samson said, “Get that woman for me! She is the one I want!”