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Deuteronomy 7

    ²And when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you smite them, then you must utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, or show mercy to them.

    ³You shall not make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son nor shall you take his daughter for your son,

    ⁴For they will turn away your sons from following Me, that they may serve other gods; so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you and He will destroy you quickly.

    ⁵But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and hew down their Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah] and burn their graven images with fire.

    ⁶For you are a holy and set-apart people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

    ⁷The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people.

    ⁸But because the Lord loves you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

    ⁹Know, recognize, and understand therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations,

    ¹⁰And repays those who hate Him to their face, by destroying them; He will not be slack to him who hates Him, but will requite him to his face.

    ¹¹You shall therefore keep and do the instruction, laws, and precepts which I command you this day.

    ¹²And if you hearken to these precepts and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which He swore to your fathers.

    ¹³And He will love you, bless you, and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.

    ¹⁴You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

    ¹⁵And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you knew will He put upon you, but will lay them upon all who hate you.

    ¹⁶And you shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will give over to you; your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

    ¹⁷If you say in your [minds and] hearts, These nations are greater than we are; how can we dispossess them?

    ¹⁸You shall not be afraid of them, but remember [earnestly] what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,

    ¹⁹The great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.

    ²⁰Moreover, the Lord your God will send the ^[a]hornet among them until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.

    ²¹You shall not dread them, for the Lord your God is among you, a mighty and terrible God.

    ²²And the Lord your God will clear out those nations before you, little by little; you may not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase among you.

    ²³But the Lord your God will give them over to you and will confuse them with a mighty panic until they are destroyed.

    ²⁴And He will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the heavens; there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

    ²⁵The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

    ²⁶Neither shall you bring an abomination (an idol) into your house, lest you become an accursed thing like it; but you shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.

Deuteronomy 8

    ²And you shall [earnestly] remember all the way which the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and to prove you, to know what was in your [mind and] heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

    ³And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you recognize and personally know that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

    ⁴Your clothing did not become old upon you nor did your feet swell these forty years.

    ⁵Know also in your [minds and] hearts that, as a man disciplines and instructs his son, so the Lord your God disciplines and instructs you.

    ⁶So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and [reverently] fear Him.^(A)

    ⁷For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

    ⁸A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey;

    ⁹A land in which you shall eat food without shortage and lack nothing in it; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

    ¹⁰When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for all the good land which He has given you.

    ¹¹Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His precepts, and His statutes which I command you today,

    ¹²Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them,

    ¹³And when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all you have is multiplied,

    ¹⁴Then your [minds and] hearts be lifted up and you forget the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

    ¹⁵Who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, but Who brought you forth water out of the flinty rock,

    ¹⁶Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

    ¹⁷And beware lest you say in your [mind and] heart, My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.

    ¹⁸But you shall [earnestly] remember the Lord your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

    ¹⁹And if you forget the Lord your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

    ²⁰Like the nations which the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 9

    ²A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

    ³Know therefore this day that the Lord your God is He Who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall dispossess them and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

    ⁴Do not say in your [mind and] heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out from before you, It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land--whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.

    ⁵Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your [minds and] hearts do you go to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out before you, and that He may fulfill the promise which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    ⁶Know therefore that the Lord your God does not give you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a hard and stubborn people.

    ⁷[Earnestly] remember and forget not how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

    ⁸Even in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.

    ⁹When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate food nor drank water.

    ¹⁰And the Lord delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

    ¹¹And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.

    ¹²And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.

    ¹³Furthermore the Lord said to me, I have seen this people, and behold, they are stubborn and hard.

    ¹⁴Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

    ¹⁵So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

    ¹⁶And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.

    ¹⁷I took the two tables, cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

    ¹⁸Then I fell down before the Lord as before, for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate food nor drank water, because of all the sin you had committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

    ¹⁹For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure which the Lord held against you, enough to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.

    ²⁰And the Lord was very angry with Aaron, angry enough to have destroyed him, and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

    ²¹And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust of it into the brook that came down out of the mountain.

    ²²At Taberah also and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.

    ²³Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you did not believe Him or trust and rely on Him or obey His voice.

    ²⁴You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

    ²⁵So I fell down and lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you.

    ²⁶And I prayed to the Lord, O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your heritage, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

    ²⁷Remember [earnestly] Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or at their sin,

    ²⁸Lest the land from which You brought us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

    ²⁹Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.

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¹⁹And when evening came on, He and ^[a]His disciples, as accustomed, went out of the city.

    ²⁰In the morning, when they were passing along, they noticed that the fig tree was withered [completely] away to its roots.

    ²¹And Peter remembered and said to Him, Master, look! The fig tree which You doomed has withered away!

    ²²And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly].

    ²³Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.

    ²⁴For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].

    ²⁵And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and ^[b]let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop.

    ^26[c]But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your failings and shortcomings.

    ²⁷And they came again to Jerusalem. And when Jesus was walking about in the [^[d]courts and porches of the] temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to Him,

    ²⁸And they kept saying to Him, By what [sort of] authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do them?

    ²⁹Jesus told them, I will ask you a question. Answer Me, and then I will tell you by what [sort of] authority I do these things.

    ³⁰Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men? Answer Me.

    ³¹And they reasoned and argued with one another, If we say, From heaven, He will say, Why then did you not believe him?

    ³²But [on the other hand] can we say, From men? For they were afraid of the people, because everybody considered and held John actually to be a prophet.

    ³³So they replied to Jesus, We do not know. And Jesus said to them, Neither am I going to tell you what [sort of] authority I have for doing these things.