Deuteronomy 9:5

King James 2000

Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto your descendants will I give this land: and there built he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

Genesis 13:15

For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your descendants forever.

Genesis 15:16

But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

Genesis 15:7

And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.

Genesis 17:8

And I will give unto you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a sojourner, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

Genesis 19:29

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Genesis 26:4

And I will make your descendants to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto your descendants all these countries; and in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

Genesis 28:13

And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your descendants;

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said unto them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.

Ezekiel 20:14

But I acted for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Ezekiel 36:22

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; I do this not for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.

Ezekiel 36:32

Not for your sakes do I this, says the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

Leviticus 18:24

Defile not you yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Leviticus 18:25

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomits out its inhabitants.

Micah 7:20

You will show truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

Acts 3:25

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Romans 11:28

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

Romans 15:8

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

Deuteronomy 1:8

Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their descendants after them.

Deuteronomy 12:31

You shall not do so unto the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:12

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 20:18

That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so that you should sin against the LORD your God.

Titus 3:5

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;