Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Cross References (15)

  • Titus 3:5 (7)

    He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and re

  • Genesis 17:8 (6)

    And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possess

  • Genesis 26:4 (5)

    I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your

  • Genesis 12:7 (4)

    Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to th

  • Genesis 15:7 (4)

    The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

  • Genesis 13:15 (4)

    for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

  • Ezekiel 20:14 (3)

    But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had br

  • Genesis 28:13 (3)

    And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isa

  • Micah 7:20 (2)

    You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

  • Romans 15:8 (2)

    For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises mad

  • Exodus 32:13 (2)

    Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make y

  • Acts 13:32–33 (2)

    And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers

  • Romans 11:28 (2)

    Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriar

  • Luke 1:54–55 (2)

    He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,

  • Acts 3:25 (2)

    And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your o