Joshua 23:12

The Passion Translation

“But if you ever turn away and make alliances with the nations that remain in your midst, and establish friendly relations with them and intermarry,

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

For this reason, a man leaves his father and his mother to be unselfishly attached to his wife. They become one flesh as a new family!

Genesis 34:3

His heart was drawn to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, so he sought to win her affection and spoke tenderly to her.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn away from truth— them you will turn away from you, to follow their crooked ways. You will give them just what they deserve. May Israel experience peace and prosperity!

Psalm 36:3

Their wicked words are nothing but lies. Wisdom is far from them. Goodness is both forgotten and forsaken.

Isaiah 1:4

Oh, how this nation keeps sinning! See them dragging the heavy burden of their guilt! They are corrupt children, descendants of evildoers. They have turned their backs on the Lord God and despised the Holy One of Israel! They have cut themselves off from the help of God!

Ezekiel 18:24

“However, if the righteous man abandons his righteous ways and acts wickedly, and follows all the despicable practices of the wicked, should he be allowed to live? None of his righteous deeds will be remembered from then on, for he is guilty of being unfaithful to me, and he will most certainly die.

Matthew 12:45

So it goes looking for seven other demons more evil than itself, and they all enter together to live there. Then the person’s condition becomes much worse than it was in the beginning. This describes what will also happen to the people of this evil generation.”

John 6:66

And so from that time on many of the disciples turned their backs on Jesus and refused to be associated with him.

Romans 12:9

Let the inner movement of your heart always be to love one another, and never play the role of an actor wearing a mask. Despise evil and embrace everything that is good and virtuous.

Joshua 23:11

Above all else, keep watch over your hearts, so as to always love Yahweh your God.

1 John 2:9

Anyone who says, “I am in the light,” while holding hatred in his heart toward a fellow believer is still in the darkness.

Judges 14:3

His parents replied, “Why can’t you find a woman from among our relatives, or at least from our tribe? You don’t have to get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me; I know she’s the right one for me.”

Judges 3:6

They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons; and the Israelites served their false gods.