Joshua 24:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.

Psalm 99:3

Let them praise your great and awesome name. Holy is he!

Psalm 99:5

Extol the Lord our God; worship at his footstool. Holy is he!

Psalm 99:9

Extol the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.

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 23:21

Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

Exodus 34:14

for you shall worship no other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Exodus 34:7

keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Isaiah 2:9

And so people are humbled, and everyone is brought low— [[do not forgive them!

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 30:11

leave the way; turn aside from the path; let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. But you refused

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of hosts is exalted by justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘Through those who are near me I will show myself holy, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” And Aaron was silent.

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.

Leviticus 11:45

For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.

Leviticus 20:7

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

Nahum 1:2

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and prolongs it against his enemies.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they?

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Joshua 24:18

and the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”

Joshua 24:23

He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

Ruth 1:15

So she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”

1 Samuel 3:14

Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering forever.”

1 Samuel 6:20

Then the people of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom shall he go so that we may be rid of him?”