Deuteronomy 9:5

Modern King James Version

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 Jehovah your God drives them out from before you, so that He may perform the Word which Jehovah swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your seed. And he built an altar there to Jehovah who appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15

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

Genesis 15:16

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

Genesis 15:7

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

Genesis 17:8

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

Genesis 19:29

And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, it happened that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Genesis 26:4

And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your seed all these lands. And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,

Genesis 28:13

And behold! Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac! The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed.

Exodus 32:13

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

Ezekiel 20:14

But I worked for My name's sake, so that it should not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I brought them out.

Ezekiel 36:22

Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: 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

I do not do this for your sake, says the Lord Jehovah, be it known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

Leviticus 18:24

Do not defile 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 visit its wickedness on it, and the land itself vomits out those who live in it.

Micah 7:20

You will give faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which You have sworn 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 kindreds of the earth be blessed."

Romans 11:28

Indeed as regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But as regards the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

Romans 15:8

And I say, Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

Deuteronomy 1:8

Behold, I have set before you the land; go in and possess the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.

Deuteronomy 12:31

You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; 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 to Jehovah. And because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you come to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 20:18

so that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods. So you would sin against Jehovah 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 regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,