Deuteronomy 9:5

Tree of Life Version

It is not by your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land. Rather, because of the wickedness of these nations, Adonai your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to keep the word Adonai swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

Then Adonai appeared to Abram, and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” So there he built an altar to Adonai, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15

For all the land that you are looking at, I will give to you and to your seed forever.

Genesis 15:16

Then in the fourth generation they will return here—for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Genesis 15:7

Then He said to him, “I am Adonai who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans, in order to give you this land to inherit it.”

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and to your seed after you the land where you are an outsider —the whole land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 19:29

So it was, as God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the upheaval, when He demolished the cities where Lot had dwelt.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your seed like the stars of the sky and I will give your seed all these lands. And in your seed all the nations of the earth will continually be blessed,

Genesis 28:13

Surprisingly, Adonai was standing on top of it and He said, “I am Adonai, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, I will give it 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 heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.’”

Ezekiel 20:14

But for the sake of My Name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 36:22

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘I do not do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for My holy Name, which you profaned among the nations wherever you went.

Ezekiel 36:32

Not for your sake will I do this”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel!”

Leviticus 18:24

“Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for in all of these ways the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

Leviticus 18:25

The land has become defiled, so I will punish its iniquity, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

Micah 7:20

You will extend truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, that You swore to our ancestors from the days of old.

Acts 3:25

You are the sons of the prophets and also of the covenant that God cut with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’

Romans 11:28

Concerning the Good News, they are hostile for your sake; but concerning chosenness, they are loved on account of the fathers—

Romans 15:8

For I declare that Messiah has become a servant to the circumcised for the sake of God’s truth, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs

Deuteronomy 1:8

See, I have set the land before you. Enter and possess the land that Adonai swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their descendants after them.’

Deuteronomy 12:31

You are not to act like this toward Adonai your God! For every abomination of Adonai, which He hates, they have done to their gods—they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:12

For whoever does these things is an abomination to Adonai, and because of these abominations Adonai your God is driving them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter the land Adonai your God is giving you, you are not to learn to do the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 20:18

You are to do this so they will not teach you to do all the abominations as they have done for their gods, and so you would sin against Adonai your God.

Titus 3:5

not by deeds of righteousness which we had done ourselves, but because of His mercy— He saved us through the mikveh of rebirth and renewing of the Ruach ha-Kodesh,