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Deuteronomy 12:30
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Deuteronomy 12:30
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30 take care that you are not snared into imitating them, after they have been destroyed before you; do not inquire concerning their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also want to do the same.’
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Deuteronomy 12:30
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Deuteronomy 12:30
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30 and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared(A) by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”(B)
Ezekiel 20:32
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Ezekiel 20:32
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32 What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, “Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.”
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Ezekiel 20:32
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Ezekiel 20:32
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32 “‘You say, “We want to be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.” But what you have in mind will never happen.
Jeremiah 10:2
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Jeremiah 10:2
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2 Thus says the Lord:
Do not learn the way of the nations
or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens,
for the nations are dismayed at them.(A)
Jeremiah 10:2
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Jeremiah 10:2
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2 This is what the Lord says:
Ephesians 4:17
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Ephesians 4:17
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The Old Life and the New
17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the[a] gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;(A)
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Ephesians 4:17
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Ephesians 4:17
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Instructions for Christian Living
17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer(A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.(B)
Ezekiel 20:28
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Ezekiel 20:28
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28 For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.(A)
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Ezekiel 20:28
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Ezekiel 20:28
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28 When I brought them into the land(A) I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that aroused my anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.(B)
Psalm 106:34-38
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Psalm 106:34-38
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34 They did not destroy the peoples,
as the Lord had commanded them,(A)
35 but they mingled with the nations
and learned to do as they did.(B)
36 They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.(C)
37 They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons;(D)
38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was polluted with blood.(E)
Psalm 106:34-38
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Psalm 106:34-38
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34 They did not destroy(A) the peoples
as the Lord had commanded(B) them,
35 but they mingled(C) with the nations
and adopted their customs.
36 They worshiped their idols,(D)
which became a snare(E) to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons(F)
and their daughters to false gods.(G)
38 They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons(H) and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was desecrated by their blood.
Deuteronomy 7:16
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Deuteronomy 7:16
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16 You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.(A)
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Deuteronomy 7:16
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Deuteronomy 7:16
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16 You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you.(A) Do not look on them with pity(B) and do not serve their gods,(C) for that will be a snare(D) to you.
1 Peter 4:3-4
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1 Peter 4:3-4
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3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A) 4 They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.[a](B)
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1 Peter 4:3-4
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1 Peter 4:3-4
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3 For you have spent enough time in the past(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.(B) 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.(C)
Romans 12:2
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Romans 12:2
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2 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.[a](A)
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- 12.2 Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God
2 Kings 17:15
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2 Kings 17:15
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15 They despised his statutes and his covenant that he had made with their ancestors and the warnings that he had given them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.(A)
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2 Kings 17:15
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2 Kings 17:15
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15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant(A) he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols(B) and themselves became worthless.(C) They imitated the nations(D) around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”
Judges 2:2-3
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Judges 2:2-3
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2 For your part, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my command. See what you have done!(A) 3 So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become adversaries[a] to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”(B)
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Judges 2:2-3
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Judges 2:2-3
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2 and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land,(A) but you shall break down their altars.(B)’ Yet you have disobeyed(C) me. Why have you done this? 3 And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you;(D) they will become traps(E) for you, and their gods will become snares(F) to you.’”
Numbers 33:52
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Numbers 33:52
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52 you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.(A)
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Numbers 33:52
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Numbers 33:52
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52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.(A)
Leviticus 18:3
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Leviticus 18:3
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3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.(A)
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Leviticus 18:3
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Leviticus 18:3
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3 You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.(A)
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