Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Cross References (50)

  • Deuteronomy 5:9 (36)

    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the

  • Numbers 14:18 (34)

    ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no mea

  • Deuteronomy 4:24 (15)

    For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

  • Exodus 34:14 (13)

    For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

  • Joshua 24:19 (12)

    But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will n

  • Psalms 109:14 (11)

    May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

  • Deuteronomy 6:15 (11)

    For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled agai

  • Jeremiah 32:18 (11)

    You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O

  • Isaiah 65:6–7 (11)

    Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,

  • Joshua 23:7 (11)

    So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or sw

  • Exodus 34:6–7 (11)

    Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to a

  • Nahum 1:2 (10)

    The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and

  • Psalms 79:8 (8)

    Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

  • Exodus 23:24 (8)

    You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash

  • Numbers 14:33 (8)

    Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until th

  • Jeremiah 2:9 (7)

    Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.

  • Matthew 23:34–36 (7)

    Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others

  • Romans 8:7 (6)

    because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

  • Isaiah 14:20–21 (6)

    You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of t

  • Job 5:4 (6)

    His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

  • Leviticus 26:39–40 (6)

    Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of th

  • James 4:4 (6)

    You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to

  • Isaiah 44:19 (5)

    And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I b

  • Leviticus 20:5 (5)

    then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow

  • John 15:23–24 (5)

    Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

  • Joshua 23:16 (5)

    If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to

  • Job 21:19 (5)

    It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

  • Leviticus 26:1 (5)

    “You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone i

  • 2 Samuel 21:1 (5)

    During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the

  • 2 Kings 17:35 (5)

    For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them;

  • 1 Kings 21:29 (5)

    “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the ca

  • Romans 1:30 (5)

    slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

  • 1 Samuel 15:2–3 (5)

    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they opposed them on th

  • Deuteronomy 7:10 (5)

    But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who

  • 2 Samuel 21:6 (5)

    let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the cho

  • 2 Kings 23:26 (5)

    Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of

  • Judges 2:19 (5)

    But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve the

  • Proverbs 6:34–35 (5)

    For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

  • Psalms 81:15 (5)

    Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.

  • Deuteronomy 32:21 (5)

    They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make

  • Isaiah 44:15 (5)

    It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread. He also fashi

  • Leviticus 26:29 (5)

    You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

  • 2 Kings 17:41 (5)

    So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren contin

  • Daniel 1:2 (4)

    And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He

  • Deuteronomy 32:41 (4)

    when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay t

  • 1 Corinthians 10:22 (4)

    Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

  • Proverbs 8:36 (4)

    But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

  • 2 Chronicles 25:14 (4)

    When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his o

  • Psalms 78:58 (4)

    They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

  • Ezekiel 8:3 (4)

    He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth