Deuteronomy 20:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their gods, and so to sin against the Lord your God.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:3

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Exodus 23:32

You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Exodus 23:33

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

Exodus 34:12

Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.

Exodus 34:16

and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Deuteronomy 18:19

And whoever will not give heed to my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.

Deuteronomy 18:9

“When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

Deuteronomy 20:17

but you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded;

Deuteronomy 20:19

“When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field men that they should be besieged by you?

Deuteronomy 9:5

Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.

1 Timothy 6:5

and wrangling among men who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

Joshua 23:13

know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, till you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Judges 2:3

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”