be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind
This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though th
They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of th
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered
You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship th
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates.
and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, dr
you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demol
You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. Th
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and ap