Deuteronomy 9:5

Modern English Version

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15

All the land that you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Genesis 15:7

He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess it.”

Genesis 17:8

All the land of Canaan, where you now live as strangers, I will give to you and to your descendants for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 19:29

So it was that when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens and will give your descendants all these lands. By your descendants all the nations of the earth will 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 Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendants, and they will 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 to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: I do not do this for your sake, 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 sake am I doing this, says the Lord God, let it be known to you. Be ashamed and humiliated for your ways, O house of Israel!

Leviticus 18:24

Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.

Leviticus 18:25

And the land has become defiled; therefore I have punished its iniquity, and the land has vomited out her inhabitants.

Micah 7:20

You will give faithfulness to Jacob and benevolence to Abraham, which You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Acts 3:25

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’

Romans 11:28

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but as regarding the election, they are beloved for the sake of the patriarchs.

Romans 15:8

Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

Deuteronomy 1:8

See, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.”

Deuteronomy 12:31

You shall not do so to the Lord your God, for every abomination to the Lord, which He hates, they have done to their gods. They have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:12

For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God will drive them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you must not learn to practice the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 20:18

so that they do not teach you to participate in all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, causing you to 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, through the washing of rebirth and the renewal of the Holy Spirit,