Deuteronomy 9:4
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4 (A)“Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is (B)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you.
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Deuteronomy 8:17
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17 Beware (A)lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’
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Deuteronomy 18:9-14
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Abominable Practices
9 “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, (A)you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone (B)who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who (C)practices divination or (D)tells fortunes or interprets omens, or (E)a sorcerer 11 or a charmer or (F)a medium or a necromancer or (G)one who inquires of the dead, 12 (H)for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And (I)because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.
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- Deuteronomy 18:10 Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
Deuteronomy 9:5
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5 (A)Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm (B)the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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2 Timothy 1:9
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9 (A)who saved us and (B)called us to[a] a holy calling, (C)not because of our works but because of (D)his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus (E)before the ages began,[b]
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- 2 Timothy 1:9 Greek before times eternal
1 Corinthians 4:7
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7 For who sees anything different in you? (A)What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
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Leviticus 18:24-30
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24 (A)“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, (B)for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the (C)land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land (D)vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But (E)you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the (F)native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29 For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 (G)So keep my charge never to practice (H)any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: (I)I am the Lord your God.”
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Deuteronomy 12:31
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31 (A)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every (B)abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for (C)they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
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Deuteronomy 7:7-8
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7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but (A)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping (B)the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Genesis 15:16
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16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for (A)the iniquity of the Amorites (B)is not yet complete.”
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Titus 3:3-5
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3 For (A)we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when (B)the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, (C)not because of works done by us in righteousness, but (D)according to his own mercy, by (E)the washing of regeneration and (F)renewal of the Holy Spirit,
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Ephesians 2:4-5
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4 But[a] God, being (A)rich in mercy, (B)because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even (C)when we were dead in our trespasses, (D)made us alive together with Christ—(E)by grace you have been saved—
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1 Corinthians 4:4
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4 (A)For I am not aware of anything against myself, (B)but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
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Romans 11:20
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20 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you (A)stand fast through faith. So (B)do not become proud, but (C)fear.
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Romans 11:6
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6 (A)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
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Ezekiel 36:32
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32 (A)It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord God; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
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Ezekiel 36:22
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I Will Put My Spirit Within You
22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (A)It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, (B)which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
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