Joshua 23:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

so that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow yourselves down to them,

Cross References

2 Kings 17:12

they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.”

2 Kings 5:18

But may the Lord pardon your servant on one count: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when I do bow down in the house of Rimmon, may the Lord pardon your servant on this one count.”

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Psalm 16:4

Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Exodus 23:13

Be attentive to all that I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.

Exodus 23:33

They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Proverbs 4:14

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evildoers.

Jeremiah 12:16

And then, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, “As the Lord lives,” as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

Jeremiah 5:7

How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of prostitutes.

Hosea 2:17

For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.

Zephaniah 1:5

those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord but also swear by Milcom,

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, and Baal-meon (some names being changed), and Sibmah, and they gave names to the towns that they rebuilt.

Numbers 33:55

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness; rather, expose them.

Deuteronomy 10:20

You shall fear the Lord your God; him you shall serve; to him you shall hold fast; and by his name you shall swear.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The Lord your God you shall fear, him you shall serve, and by his name alone you shall swear.

Deuteronomy 6:14

Do not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who are all around you,

Joshua 23:12

For if you turn back and join the survivors of these nations left here among you and intermarry with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

Joshua 23:8

but hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.